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fault finding
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
adjective as in petulant
adjective as in picky
adjective as in querulous
Weak matches
- bearish
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
adjective as in quibbling
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Weak matches
adjective as in captious
adjective as in carping
adjective as in censorious
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in fault-finding
noun as in complaint
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Weak match
noun as in flak
adjective as in critical
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Example Sentences
De Robeck agrees that we don't know enough yet to warrant us in fault-finding or intervention.
In a clean, well-kept room there will be less fault-finding, scolding and gloom than in a neglected one.
The poor lad had no desire to spend another winter with this cross, fault-finding dame.
He was suspicious and fault-finding with Scipio and the other servants, though they were never so busy for his wants.
This science teaches us to avoid fault-finding, bothering, boring, and other tormenting habits.
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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fault-finding, such as: captious, carping, fussy, hairsplitting, hard-to-please, and hypercritical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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