4
novelist(noun, author, writer, correspondent, poet)
4
overcritical(adjective, severe, sharp, harsh, unsympathetic)
4
pamphleteer(noun, dissertation)
4
referee(noun, authority, judge, expert, court)
4
scholar(noun, person, learning)
4
vituperator(noun, detractor)
3
arbitrator
3
author(noun, writer, correspondent, poet, composer)
3
backbiter(noun, detractor)
3
cognoscente(noun, authority)
3
criticism
3
editor(noun, author, writer, correspondent, poet)
3
expositor(noun, writer, reporter, interpreter, observer)
3
fan
3
frondeur
3
hypercritical
3
justice(noun, authority, judge, expert, court)
3
lampooner(noun, detractor)
3
muckraker(noun, opponent, enemy, attacker, censor)
3
satirist(noun, detractor)
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