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to fisk

to fisk

1 9.9
To examine a text and show what is wrong point by point
  • verb
  • /fɪsk/
  • Jargon
: refutar punto por punto
  • Ed Lasky writes an excellent article titled "Fisking Obama at AIPAC" in The American Thinker that critiques Obama's speech at AIPAC.

Examples

  • I have no desire to systematically identify all the smears and fisk the lies and aspersions cast about by this democratic journalist.

    Blog text (21)

  • How much you got to sell, fisk?

    The Toast of New York (1937)

  • Or, hell, you can go back and fisk your own posts.

    Blog text (32)

  • You can fight me, fisk, but you can't fight 40 million people.

    The Toast of New York (1937)

  • To do otherwise is to fisk, allowing the profession to deteriorate.

    Academic text (1992)

  • I've practically begged to be fisked.

    Blog text (26)

  • He now runs Nathan Ravens Happy Place, an incredible site that is dedicated and committed to fisking doing deep readings of trash culture.

  • The journalist decided to fisk the article for its misleading claims.

  • Many bloggers choose to fisk popular debates to clarify their positions.

  • In her review, she took the time to fisk each argument presented in the book.

Synonyms

to critique
vsto fisk
49 6.7

To give an opinion about a work such as a book or film to show its good and bad points

focuses on addressing each point individually rather than general review
to pick apart
vsto fisk
  • Informal
17 5.2

To find faults in ideas or work by pointing out small problems

focuses on responding to each point individually

How Detailed

to fisk
  • Jargon
1 9.9
to analyze
  • US
513 3.2
to criticize
653 3.3
to respond
∞ 1.0
to note
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

fisk infinitive
fisked past
fisked past participle
fisking present participle
fiskes third person singular

Etymology

Fisk (as a verb) is said to come from the name of journalist Robert Fisk, since bloggers would answer his pieces claim by claim. So, to fisk something is to go through it and criticize each point one by one.