faultfinding

faultfinding
n
1. pettifoggery, carping, caviling, quibbling, niggling, hairsplitting, Inf. nitpicking; hy-percriticism, over criticism, criticism, captiousness, cen-soriousness.
adj
2. captious, censorious, severe, hypercritical, overcritical, critical; querulous, contentious, carping, caviling, quibbling, pettifogging, hairsplitting, niggling, Inf. nitpicking; bad-tempered, ill-tempered ill-disposed, cross, crabby, Inf. grouchy, Inf. sore, Sl. bellyaching.

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