Sentence:  After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of <WSD>pointed</WSD> criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Directed negatively at a person or topic.