What's the difference between hypercritical and hypocritical?

Hypercritical


Definition:

  • (a.) Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
  • (a.) Excessively nice or exact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main reasons why the program did not produce the other 142 comments were: insufficient data in the computer-based medical record; absence of sufficient medical consensus; and omissions in the database of hypercritic.
  • (2) Given the fickle and hypercritical nature of the group, in conceiving Spamalot Idle had to manage his expectations.
  • (3) HyperCritic has access to the data stored in a primary-care information system that supports a fully automated medical record.
  • (4) But four years after Greece went hypercritical, triggering a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and a reshaping of how the EU works, the social, economic and political costs of the upheaval are coming home to roost.
  • (5) On the basis of reviewing his role in the Medico-Psychological Association (MPA), his rather pessimistic and degenerationist philosophy, his undoubted wealth and his 'hypercritical nature', it is possible to define an alternative view of his significance and influence.
  • (6) The core of the model underlying HyperCritic is that the process of generating the critiquing statements is viewed as the application of a limited set of abstract critiquing tasks.
  • (7) Behind the scenes, it argues, Deng had become hypercritical and aggressive towards Murdoch.
  • (8) His peddling of a ‘moral’ justification for perpetuating fossil fuel dependence in developing countries is hypercritical and ill-informed.
  • (9) Calculation of an "index of merit" ([sensitivity + specificity] - 1) for individual reviewers showed that hypercritic performed better (index of merit 0.62) in its limited domain than did physician reviewers (0.3-0.56).
  • (10) Unlike some players, Murray is a superb analyst of his own tennis, often hypercritical and rarely complacent, even in moments of grand achievement.
  • (11) We have written a computer program called 'HyperCritic' that audits general practitioners' management of patients with essential hypertension by taking patient-specific data from the ELIAS system.
  • (12) Of 468 comments on patient management, 260 were judged correct by six or more of the physicians; hypercritic also made 118 of these 260 comments.
  • (13) We investigated whether the computer-based medical records contain sufficient information to generate critiques, and compared the limitations of audit by hypercritic with those of review by a panel of eight physicians.
  • (14) After detecting the relevant events in the medical record, HyperCritic views the task of critiquing as the assignment of critiquing statements to these patient-specific events.
  • (15) He was prone to shame and guilt, self-criticism, and hidden hypercritical attitudes toward others.
  • (16) We describe the design of a critiquing system, HyperCritic, that relies on automated medical records for its data input.
  • (17) Hypercritic and the physicians independently reviewed the medical records of 20 randomly selected patients with hypertension and commented on the decisions made at each of 243 patient visits.
  • (18) The principal advantage demonstrated by HyperCritic is the adaption of a domain-independent critiquing structure.

Hypocritical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
  • (2) Therefore, according to this view all high-ranking Libyan officials were intrinsically self-serving hypocrites.
  • (3) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
  • (4) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (5) The hypocritical Greens remained absolutely silent while these projects were advanced, but now they feign an interest.
  • (6) Now he says it when he’s rich, he’s a hypocrite.
  • (7) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
  • (8) This position is both morally bankrupt and hypocritical.
  • (9) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
  • (10) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
  • (11) It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite.
  • (12) He will back Johnson’s assessment, while also saying it is hypocritical for the government to continue with arms sales to the region.
  • (13) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
  • (14) Of course, this is totally hypocritical: their ideology is based on denying national statehood, so they are against establishing a Somali state.
  • (15) I wasn't attending to its meaning as I said it, and if I thought about it, I felt a hypocrite.
  • (16) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
  • (17) "I'm not a hypocrite, I'm not going to lie to people but if it was impossible I would say," he said, before defining the necessary "miracle" as "three wins and a draw."
  • (18) They and other ideologues in the extremist movement saw this lack of unity – rather than the US, "hypocrite, apostate" regimes in the Middle East or the supposed lack of faith of other Muslims – as their biggest problem, at least in the short term.
  • (19) Ed Balls's bluster is confused and hypocritical when the reality is he'd do it all again," Fallon said.
  • (20) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.