1.   The slightest criticism generates an overwhelming impulse to impale myself on my microscope eyepieces.

2.   Gets all in a huff every time anyone makes the slightest criticism.

3.   He takes great umbrage at the slightest criticism of him or his point of view.

4.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, generally intolerant of the slightest criticism, backed off.

5.   Q. One of the employees who reports to me cries every time I give her some negative feedback or offer even the slightest criticism of her work.

6.   That is hard to accept from a commissioner who fines players for the slightest criticism of referees, for not hemming their shorts.

7.   They refrain from even the slightest personal criticism of Bush.

8.   Your youngster may take offense at the slightest criticism and waffle between being your old, familiar child one minute and some new, unfamiliar preteen the next.