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judgmental

[ juhj-men-tl ]

adjective

  1. involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  2. tending to make quick and excessively critical judgments, especially moral ones:

    to avoid a judgmental approach in dealing with divorced couples.



judgmental

/ ʌˈɛԳə /

adjective

  1. of or denoting an attitude in which judgments about other people's conduct are made
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Other Word Forms

  • ܻ岵·t· adverb
  • ܲjܻ岵·t adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of judgmental1

First recorded in 1905–10; judgment + -al 1
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Meanwhile, Glenn’s judgmental attitude is its own worrying mask.

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“I always thought the right overstated how judgmental my party was, and I’ll be candid with you, I have a deeper understanding now of that critique than I ever, ever, ever understood.”

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Even the day scenes feel tinged by darkness — especially when Shula visits her dead uncle’s home to find a neglected hovel of forgotten children likely to be abandoned by her judgmental aunties.

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Maybe it’s because I was being accepted for the rawest version of myself: loud, artistic, sometimes judgmental, but always warm and open to new people and experiences.

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As seems to be the case in most every modern romantic comedy — this is, often, in a purposely self-conscious way — she has been serially dating with poor results, not helped by her own judgmental attitude.

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