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faultfinding
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun faultfinding has 1 sense
- faultfinding(n = noun.communication) carping - persistent petty and unjustified criticism; Array is a kind of criticism, unfavorable judgment
Derived form adjective faultfinding2
Adjective faultfinding has 2 senses
- faultfinding(s = adj.all) Array - tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be faultfinding"
- faultfinding(s = adj.all) captious - tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" Derived form noun faultfinding1
THESAURUS
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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