fault-finding

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

fault-find=ing

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CIDE DICTIONARY

fault-finding, n.

The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

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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