"was openly criticized" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when someone critiques something or someone without trying to hide their feelings. Example: The mayor's proposal was openly criticized by the citizens.
Fwd.Us has been openly criticized by others in Silicon Valley.
One of the few places in Spain where Mr. Botín is openly criticized is Puerta del Sol, the public square that since May has been home to the antiestablishment protests of Spain's "indignados," or "angry ones".
Mr. Wade's determination to run for a third term has been openly criticized by the country's principal aid donors, France and the United States, with both countries suggesting in the weeks leading up to the election that he should reconsider.
This has been openly criticized [18], and several regulatory frameworks [1, 5, 6, 8] have recently recommended to take all available information into account.
Now he will take over an agency that has been openly criticized by his future boss.
It's unfortunately predictable that Groening would try to act like Apu hasn't been openly criticized for nearly 3 decades & instead acts like it's a modern trend because it's slightly easier now for such a critique to spread to white people's ears https://t.co/qdBCrLSpOW.
Contributing to such reluctance, some existing PRO measures have been openly criticized in the research literature as being inadequately conceptualized, lacking psychometric rigor, and based on inconsistently applied psychometric methods [ 1, 2].
Another way to tell what your priorities are is to imagine that someone you love was being openly criticized for something that you don't support (let's say, they're gay but you don't agree with the lifestyle).
Congressional Democrats are openly criticizing the White House for having been too closed and secretive in the development of what amounts to the largest reorganization of government in 50 years.
