- Art Critic - Expert in good taste - Expert in the arts - Expert judge - Gourmet - Judge of good taste - One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing
person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine
arts.
- Crucial - Vital - Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary
or artistic productions. - Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the
nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical
dissertation. - Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise
careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious. - Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious;
captious; censorious; exacting. - Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to
principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
- Backstabbing - debasement - Destructive comment - The rules and principles which regulate the practice of
the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the
beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in
the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. - The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or
expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a
critique; animadversion; censure.