critic, n. [censor], reviewer, [adept], [judge], inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus.
critical, a. [discriminating], [fastidious]; [carping], [censorious], [captious], [caviling], zoilean; [crucial], momentous, [decisive], [precarious], climacteric.
criticism, n. critique, [censure], animadversion, [stricture], [cavil].
croak, v. [forebode], [decry], [complain], [grumble].
croaker, n. [grumbler], alarmist, decrier, pessimist.
crock, n. [jar], [pot]; [soot], [smut].
crony, n. (Colloq.) bosom [friend], intimate, [associate], [chum].
crook, n. [bend], [turn], [curve], [curvature], deflection; crosier; pothook; [artifice], [trick], [subterfuge], [ruse].
crook, v. [bend], [curve], incurvate.
crooked, a. [twisted], [bent], [devious], [deformed], tortuous, sinuous, [winding], flexuous, curved, curvilinear, [spiral], labyrinthial; distorted, [awry], [askew], [wry]; [dishonest], [fraudulent], [unscrupulous], [knavish].