Synonyms:
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- blameful,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- censoriousness,
- condemnatory,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- damnatory,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- hairsplitting,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jawing,
- knock,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- objurgatory,
- obloquy,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- priggishness,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- railing,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachful,
- reproachfulness,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- ultracritical,
- upbraiding