'faultfinding' definitions:
Definition of 'faultfinding'
From: WordNet
adjective
Tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be faultfinding"
adjective
Tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" [syn: captious, faultfinding]
noun
Persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn: faultfinding, carping]
Synonyms of 'faultfinding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Jeremianic,
- 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