Which preposition to use with criticise

for Occurrences 21%

"Percival Brooks, who was now drawing an income of over a hundred thousand a year, was very severely criticised for adhering so strictly to the letter of his father's will, and only paying his brother that paltry £300 a year, which was very literally but the crumbs off his own magnificent dinner table.

in Occurrences 14%

With an impetuosity he would have criticised in another man, he flung himself out of the room in which he had been for so many hours confined, and coming face to face with the landlady standing in unexpected watch before the door, found it a strain on his nerves to instantly assume the sullen, vaguely abused air with which he had decided to leave the house.

from Occurrences 5%

James F. Reed of the Reed-Greenwood Party, the second to reach the emigrants, has been adversely criticised from time to time, because he and six of his men returned to Sutter's Fort in March with no more than his own two children and Solomon Hook, a lad of twelve years, who had said that he could and would walk, and did.

with Occurrences 5%

Barely to say, that one performance is not so good as another, is to criticise with little exactness.

as Occurrences 4%

His work is also criticised as being too effeminate for ordinary readers.

by Occurrences 4%

He had seen many things in the life of the people with whom he was identified which gave him intense pain, but instead of constantly censuring and finding fault with their inconsistencies of conscience, he strove to live so blamelessly before them that he would show them by example a more excellent way and "criticise by creation."

at Occurrences 3%

" In the meantime, Montagu's conduct of affairs was much criticised at home, and Lord Stanhope's Administration, which had come into power in April, 1717, decided to recall him.

on Occurrences 3%

Such a sort of behaviour without any glaring absurdity, either in prodigality or avarice, always gains a man the reputation of reasonable and honest; and this was his character when the Earl of Godolphin sent him envoy to the States, not doubting but he would be faithful to his orders, without giving himself the trouble of criticising on them, which is what all ministers wish in an envoy.

to Occurrences 2%

The former usage I have already criticised to a great extent.

than Occurrences 2%

Novels are productions more easily criticised than any others: every one may judge for himself of the truth or probability of the events, and the accuracy of the features of character.

of Occurrences 2%

The Marxist criticise of literature.

without Occurrences 2%

If, as in the case of the authors attacked in the 'Baviad,' the works censured were vitiating our literatureor, as in the case of Moore's Poems, corrupting our moralsif they were denouncing our religious principles, or attacking those political principles on which our Government subsistslet them be criticised without mercy.

behind Occurrences 1%

We are all criticised behind our backs, of course, and we have all faults which amuse and interest our friends; and it is not caddish to criticise friends if one is only interested in them.

Which preposition to use with  criticise