Exact Match:
- carper
- someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- quibbler
collapse - a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections related words >
- belittler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- momus,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- nitpicker,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- pettifogger,
- picayune critic,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- scold,
- shuffler,
- smellfungus,
- tergiversator
- nitpicker
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- someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms related words >
- belittler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- momus,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- perfectionist,
- pettifogger,
- picayune critic,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- quibbler,
- scold,
- shuffler,
- smellfungus,
- stickler,
- tergiversator
- muckraker
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- one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) related words >
- Thersites,
- annotator,
- backbiter,
- belittler,
- calumniator,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caustic critic,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- cognoscente,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cynic,
- debunker,
- decrier,
- defamer,
- deflater,
- depreciator,
- derogator,
- detractor,
- disparager,
- editor,
- faultfinder,
- hatchet man,
- knocker,
- libeler,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- mudslinger,
- railer,
- reviewer,
- scholiast,
- slanderer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- textual critic,
- traducer
- aesthete,
- amateur,
- annotator,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- authority,
- bon vivant,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- collector,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- dab,
- dilettante,
- editor,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- expert,
- faultfinder,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- judge,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- maven,
- muckraker,
- proficient,
- refined palate,
- reviewer,
- scholiast,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- specialist,
- textual critic,
- virtuoso
- agitator,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- belittler,
- bellyacher,
- brawler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- complainant,
- complainer,
- crab,
- crank,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- croaker,
- extremist,
- faultfinder,
- griper,
- grouch,
- grouser,
- growler,
- grumbler,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- kicker,
- kvetch,
- malcontent,
- maverick,
- momus,
- murmurer,
- mutineer,
- mutterer,
- nitpicker,
- nonconformist,
- pettifogger,
- querulous person,
- quibbler,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- rebel,
- revolter,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- rioter,
- scold,
- smellfungus,
- sorehead,
- subversive,
- traitor,
- whiner
- criticize
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- act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either" related words >
- annotate,
- appraise,
- assess,
- attack,
- blame,
- blast,
- carp at,
- carper,
- castigate,
- caviler,
- censure,
- comment upon,
- condemn,
- criticizer,
- critique,
- cut up,
- deal with,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- descant,
- disapprove of,
- discourse,
- discuss,
- dissert,
- dissertate,
- estimate,
- evaluate,
- faultfinder,
- fulminate against,
- fustigate,
- go into,
- handle,
- hit,
- impugn,
- inquire into,
- judge,
- knock,
- knocker,
- lambaste,
- momus,
- moralize upon,
- pan,
- pull to pieces,
- put down,
- rap,
- remark upon,
- reprehend,
- reprobate,
- review,
- roast,
- scathe,
- skin,
- slam,
- slate,
- smellfungus,
- snipe at,
- survey,
- take to task,
- take up,
- touch upon,
- treat,
- treat of,
- value,
- write up
- knocker
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- a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
- a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"
- (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person related words >
- Thersites,
- backbiter,
- bag,
- belittler,
- boobs,
- bosom,
- breast,
- breasts,
- brisket,
- bust,
- calumniator,
- carper,
- caustic critic,
- caviler,
- chest,
- criticizer,
- crop,
- cynic,
- debunker,
- decrier,
- defamer,
- deflater,
- depreciator,
- derogator,
- detractor,
- disparager,
- dug,
- faultfinder,
- hatchet man,
- knockers,
- libeler,
- mama,
- mamelon,
- mamelonation,
- mammary gland,
- mammilla,
- mammillation,
- momus,
- muckraker,
- mudslinger,
- nenes,
- nipple,
- pap,
- papilla,
- pigeon breast,
- railer,
- slanderer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- teat,
- thorax,
- tit,
- tits,
- titties,
- titty,
- traducer,
- udder
- scholiast
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- a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) related words >
- allegorist,
- annotator,
- book reviewer,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- cognoscente,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diaskeuast,
- dragoman,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emendator,
- emender,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- faultfinder,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- interpreter,
- leader writer,
- lexicographer,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- metaphrast,
- muckraker,
- news analyst,
- oneirocritic,
- paraphrast,
- publicist,
- reviewer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- textual critic,
- translator
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- ambulance chaser,
- belittler,
- bunco artist,
- bunco steerer,
- captious critic,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- carper,
- carpetbagger,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- con artist,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- crimp,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- equivocator,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- hairsplitter,
- hedger,
- horse coper,
- horse trader,
- jackleg,
- land pirate,
- land shark,
- land-grabber,
- momus,
- mortgage shark,
- mystificator,
- mystifier,
- nitpicker,
- obscurantist,
- palterer,
- picayune critic,
- pitchman,
- prevaricator,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooter,
- quibbler,
- scold,
- shark,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- shortchanger,
- shuffler,
- shyster,
- slicker,
- smellfungus,
- spieler,
- tergiversator
- commentator
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- a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day related words >
- AFTRA,
- DJ,
- MC,
- allegorist,
- anchor man,
- annotator,
- announcer,
- book reviewer,
- broadcaster,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- cognoscente,
- commenter,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diaskeuast,
- disk jockey,
- dragoman,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emcee,
- emendator,
- emender,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- faultfinder,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- interpreter,
- leader writer,
- lexicographer,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- master of ceremonies,
- metaphrast,
- muckraker,
- news analyst,
- news commentator,
- newscaster,
- oneirocritic,
- paraphrast,
- program director,
- programmer,
- publicist,
- radiobroadcaster,
- reviewer,
- scholiast,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- sound-effects man,
- sportscaster,
- textual critic,
- translator
- connoisseur
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- an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts related words >
- Admirable Crichton,
- accumulator,
- adept,
- aesthete,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- annotator,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- artisan,
- artist,
- attache,
- authority,
- bill collector,
- bon vivant,
- buff,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- cognoscente,
- collection agent,
- collector,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- connaisseur,
- consultant,
- cordon bleu,
- crack shot,
- craftsman,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- dead shot,
- dilettante,
- diplomat,
- diplomatist,
- douanier,
- dunner,
- editor,
- elder statesman,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- exciseman,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert consultant,
- fan,
- farmer,
- faultfinder,
- freak,
- gatherer,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- graduate,
- handy man,
- journeyman,
- judge,
- literary critic,
- magpie,
- man of letters,
- marksman,
- maven,
- miser,
- muckraker,
- no slouch,
- nut,
- pack rat,
- politician,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- pundit,
- refined palate,
- reviewer,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholiast,
- shark,
- sharp,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- specialist,
- statesman,
- tax collector,
- technical adviser,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- textual critic,
- virtuoso
- reviewer
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- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication related words >
- advertising writer,
- analysis,
- annalist,
- annotator,
- art critic,
- audit,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- book reviewer,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- checkup,
- coauthor,
- cognoscente,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- comment,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- compiler,
- composer,
- connoisseur,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- critique,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- faultfinder,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- inspection,
- leader writer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- muckraker,
- music critic,
- news analyst,
- newspaper,
- newspaperman,
- notice,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- organ,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- periodical,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- publicist,
- recension,
- reconsideration,
- redraft,
- reflection,
- rescript,
- retrospect,
- retrospection,
- revisal,
- revise,
- revision,
- scan,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scholiast,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- scrutiny,
- second thought,
- short-story writer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- storyteller,
- study,
- survey,
- technical writer,
- textual critic,
- view,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- censor
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- 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" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- annotator,
- asphyxiate,
- belittler,
- black out,
- bleach,
- blip,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bottle up,
- bowdlerize,
- cancel,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censurer,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- clean up,
- cognoscente,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- common scold,
- connoisseur,
- conscience,
- conscientiousness,
- cork,
- cork up,
- crack down on,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cross out,
- crush,
- cut,
- cut out,
- damp down,
- delete,
- drown,
- edit,
- edit out,
- editor,
- erase,
- ethical self,
- excise,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- extinguish,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- gag,
- grace,
- hold down,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- inner arbiter,
- inward monitor,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- momus,
- monopolist,
- moral censor,
- muckraker,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- narrow,
- nitpicker,
- omit,
- pettifogger,
- pour water on,
- protectionist,
- purge,
- purify,
- put down,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- quibbler,
- repress,
- rescind,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restrictionist,
- reviewer,
- rub out,
- scholiast,
- scold,
- screen,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- smash,
- smellfungus,
- smother,
- social conscience,
- social critic,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stanch,
- stifle,
- strangle,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- suffocate,
- superego,
- suppress,
- tender conscience,
- textual critic,
- throttle,
- twinge of conscience,
- voice of conscience,
- void
- scold
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- someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault related words >
- Xanthippe,
- admonish,
- amazon,
- baste,
- battle-ax,
- bawl out,
- beldam,
- belittler,
- berate,
- bitch,
- blame,
- blister,
- brace,
- bring to book,
- cackle,
- call,
- call to account,
- captious critic,
- carol,
- carper,
- carpet,
- castigate,
- cat,
- caviler,
- caw,
- censor,
- censure,
- censurer,
- chastise,
- chatter,
- cheep,
- chew,
- chew out,
- chide,
- chirk,
- chirp,
- chirr,
- chirrup,
- chitter,
- chuck,
- clack,
- cluck,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- common scold,
- coo,
- correct,
- critic,
- criticize,
- criticizer,
- croak,
- cronk,
- crow,
- cuckoo,
- denounce,
- dress down,
- drum,
- excoriate,
- execrate,
- faultfinder,
- fishwife,
- frondeur,
- fury,
- gabble,
- gaggle,
- gobble,
- grill,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- grunt,
- guggle,
- harass,
- harpy,
- harridan,
- have words with,
- honk,
- hoo,
- hoot,
- hound,
- jaw,
- lash,
- lecture,
- mob,
- momus,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nag,
- nitpicker,
- objurgate,
- ogress,
- peep,
- pettifogger,
- pip,
- pipe,
- quack,
- quibbler,
- rag,
- rail,
- rant,
- rate,
- ream out,
- rebuke,
- reprehend,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobate,
- reprove,
- revile,
- roll,
- row,
- set down,
- set straight,
- she-devil,
- she-wolf,
- shrew,
- sing,
- smellfungus,
- spank,
- spitfire,
- squawk,
- straighten out,
- take down,
- take to task,
- tell off,
- termagant,
- tigress,
- tongue,
- tongue-lash,
- trill,
- tweet,
- twit,
- twitter,
- upbraid,
- virago,
- vituperate,
- vixen,
- warble,
- whistle,
- wig,
- witch
- editor
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- a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) related words >
- allegorist,
- annotator,
- bibliognost,
- bibliographer,
- biblioklept,
- bibliolater,
- bibliomane,
- bibliomaniac,
- bibliopegist,
- bibliophage,
- bibliophile,
- bibliopole,
- bibliopolist,
- bibliotaph,
- bibliothec,
- bibliothecaire,
- bibliothecary,
- book agent,
- book collector,
- book printer,
- book publisher,
- book reviewer,
- book salesman,
- book-stealer,
- bookbinder,
- bookdealer,
- booklover,
- bookmaker,
- bookman,
- bookseller,
- bookworm,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- cataloger,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- chief librarian,
- cicerone,
- city editor,
- clarifier,
- cognoscente,
- collector,
- college editor,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- compiler,
- connoisseur,
- copy chief,
- copy editor,
- copyman,
- copyreader,
- correspondent,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- cub reporter,
- curator,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diaskeuast,
- dictionary editor,
- dragoman,
- editor-in-chief,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emendator,
- emender,
- euhemerist,
- executive editor,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- faultfinder,
- feature editor,
- foreign correspondent,
- gazetteer,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- interpreter,
- interviewer,
- journalist,
- juvenile editor,
- leader writer,
- leg man,
- lexicographer,
- librarian,
- library director,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- managing editor,
- metaphrast,
- muckraker,
- news analyst,
- news editor,
- newsman,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- oneirocritic,
- own correspondent,
- paragrapher,
- paragraphist,
- paraphrast,
- permissions editor,
- philobiblist,
- pressman,
- printer,
- production editor,
- publicist,
- publisher,
- reader,
- redactor,
- reference editor,
- reference librarian,
- reporter,
- reviewer,
- reviser,
- rewrite man,
- rewriter,
- scholiast,
- slotman,
- smellfungus,
- sob sister,
- social critic,
- special correspondent,
- sports editor,
- subeditor,
- textbook editor,
- textual critic,
- trade editor,
- translator,
- war correspondent,
- writer
- critic
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- 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 related words >
- advertising writer,
- aficionado,
- allegorist,
- amateur,
- annalist,
- annotator,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- authority,
- belittler,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bon vivant,
- book reviewer,
- buff,
- captious,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- carping,
- caviler,
- caviling,
- censor,
- censorious,
- censurer,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- coauthor,
- cognoscente,
- collaborator,
- collector,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- common scold,
- compiler,
- complainer,
- composer,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- dance critic,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diarist,
- diaskeuast,
- dilettante,
- disparager,
- dragoman,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editor,
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