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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"

fault-finding collapse

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

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

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

bad notices collapse

bad press collapse

animadversion 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

nit picking collapse

nit collapse: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing; a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

niggle collapse

obloquy collapse: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

quibbling collapse

peevish collapse

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

pestering collapse

fretful collapse: habitually complaining; "a whining child"

nagging collapse

querulous collapse

criticism collapse: a serious examination and judgment of something; "constructive criticism is always appreciated"; a written evaluation of a work of literature; disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings; "the senator received severe criticism from his opponent"

niggling collapse

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

flak collapse

faultfinding collapse: persistent petty and unjustified criticism

cavil collapse: raise trivial objections

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

aspersion collapse: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare); an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"

imputation collapse: the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously"; a statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"

stricture collapse: severe criticism

contention collapse: a point asserted as part of an argument

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

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