Hypercritical or Hypocritical?

Hypercritical means "excessively critical."

Hypocritical means "two-faced" or "characterized by hypocrisy." It literally means "critical underneath."

Note also the spelling of the nouns hypocrisy and hypocrite.

See also Hyper- or Hypo-.


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