Fault-finding

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

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

    

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