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Faultfinding

adjective
1.
Tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions.
2.
Tending to find and call attention to faults.  Synonym: captious.  "An excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"





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"Faultfinding" Quotes from Famous Books



... there are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. Indiscriminating irony and faultfinding are just sumphishness, and that is all. Anne is now much better, but papa has been for near a fortnight far from well with the influenza; he has at times a most distressing cough, and his spirits ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Words linked to "Faultfinding" :   unfavorable judgment, judgmental, critical, captious, carping, criticism


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