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adj. Excessively critical; captious.

adj. Meticulously or excessively critical.

adj. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.

adj. Excessively nice or exact.

Excessively or captiously critical; judging adversely from trivial or irrelevant considerations; unduly finical or unjustly severe in judgment.

Excessively exacting or scrupulous.

adj. inclined to judge too severely

"Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents."

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carping    captious    overcritical    fastidious   

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