Fault-finding \Fault"-find`ing\, n. The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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

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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

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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]

noun

persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn: carping]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Fault-finding \Fault"-find`ing\, n. The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)