faultfinding
Adjective
critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, carping, censorious mean inclined to look for and point out faults and defects.
critical may also imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge it fairly.
hypercritical suggests a tendency to judge by unreasonably strict standards.
faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament.
captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds.
carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of flaws.
censorious implies a disposition to be severely critical and condemnatory.
1622, in the meaning defined above
Noun
circa 1611, in the meaning defined above
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