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captious: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

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caviling collapse: quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

sophistic collapse: plausible but misleading; of or pertaining to sophists

fault-finding collapse

hypercritical collapse: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

quibbler collapse: a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

logic chopping collapse

nitpicker collapse: someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms

cynical collapse: believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

overcritical collapse

sarcastic collapse: expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

muckraker collapse: one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)

prevaricator collapse

testy collapse

cognoscente collapse

stickler collapse: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

frondeur collapse

pussyfooting collapse

carping collapse

choleric collapse: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"; quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"; easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells

scholiast collapse: a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

critic collapse: someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments; anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something; a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

precisian collapse

pettifogger collapse

quibbling collapse

evasive collapse: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"; avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

commentator collapse: a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day

peevish collapse

censorious collapse: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

fretful collapse: habitually complaining; "a whining child"

hedging collapse

nagging collapse

perfectionist collapse: a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards

petulant collapse

trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

touchy collapse

connoisseur collapse: an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts

niggling collapse

reviewer collapse: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

hairsplitting collapse: making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

censor collapse: a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable; someone who censures or condemns; subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

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