According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
CRITICIZE
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
(verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; “The paper criticized the new movie”; “Don’t knock the food--it’s free”
criticize, criticise
(verb) act as a critic; “Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
criticize (third-person singular simple present criticizes, present participle criticizing, simple past and past participle criticized) (ambitransitive)
To find fault (with something).
Synonyms: censure, pick at, Thesaurus:criticize
Hyponyms: find fault, shoot down, run down, trash out, fustigate, drub, excoriate
To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.
Synonyms: censure, appraise, judge
Source: Wiktionary
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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