faultfinding

faultfinding
    adj 1: tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on
           personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be
           faultfinding"
    2: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious
       pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
       [syn: {captious}, {faultfinding}]
    n 1: persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn:
         {faultfinding}, {carping}]
    

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