Fault-finding \Fault"-find`ing\, n.
The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively.
Also Adj.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
faultfinding
adj 1: tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on
personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be
faultfinding" [syn: faultfinding(a)]
2: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious
pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
[syn: captious]
n : persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn: carping]
WordNet (r) 2.0
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "fault-finding":
captious, captiousness, carping, cavilling, censorious, censure,
contentious, critical, criticism, fussiness, fussy, hair-splitting,
hypercritical, hypercriticism, niggling, nit-picking, pettifogging,
picky, querulous, quibbling
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "faultfinding":
Jeremianic, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion,
bad notices, bad press, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching,
bitch, bitching, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling,
censoriousness, complaining, complaint, complaintful, crabbing,
crabby, cranky, critical, criticism, croaking, cynical,
destructive criticism, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled,
displeased, dissatisfied, dissent, envious, exception, flak,
fretful, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouchy,
grouse, grousing, growling, grumbling, hairsplitting, hit, holler,
home thrust, hostile criticism, howl, howling, hypercritical,
hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, kick, kicking,
knock, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful,
murmuring, muttering, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking,
obloquy, out of humor, overcritical, overcriticalness, peeve,
peevish, peevishness, pestering, pet peeve, pettifogging,
petulance, petulant, plaintive, plangent, priggishness, protest,
puling, querulant, querulous, querulousness, quibble, quibbling,
rap, rebellious, reflection, reproachfulness, resentful, restive,
restless, scolding, slam, sniping, sorrowful, squawk, squawking,
stricture, sulky, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistic,
trichoschistism, ultracritical, ululant, unaccepting,
unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy,
unsatisfied, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, yapping
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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