The phrase "highly criticized" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it to describe something that has received a lot of critical or negative feedback. For example, "The new government policy has been highly criticized by experts in the field".
This album and the band's change in image/musical direction (nu metal/alternative metal) was highly criticized, with critics and fans alike accusing the band of "selling out".
After all, this is a highly criticized bunch.
He faced a seven-hour hearing yesterday on the city's highly criticized response to the blizzard late last month.
"They have been highly criticized because they are losing money, but I think that's shortsighted," said Richard J. DeKaser, chief economist of National City Bank in Cleveland.
He began his career as a banker who built his fortune on a series of highly criticized privatizations of state-owned companies, like Yukos.
We were showing these videos and some of them say things or insinuate negative things about women, and so we were highly criticized.
When Ms. Kelly noted the move had been "highly criticized," Mr. Gingrich said to great applause and laughter, "not by anybody in power in 1802".
She suggested that his highly criticized fly-over of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was in the best interests of the victims and aid workers on the ground.
"The Studios in Carrizo Springs offers an excellent solution and is distinctly different from the facilities that are so highly criticized in the media and by human rights groups," Stratton wrote.
Neil McCabe, a professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, said the original decision by Mr. Rosenthal to seek death "was highly criticized throughout the legal community".
