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faultfinding: persistent petty and unjustified criticism

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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"

puling 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

grouchy collapse

plaintive collapse

overcritical collapse

crabby collapse

bad notices collapse

bad press collapse

pet peeve collapse: an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed; "grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve"

yapping collapse

animadversion collapse

scolding collapse: who is rebuking severely; "the scolding father"

displeased collapse: not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure

whimpering collapse

carping collapse

out of humor 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

unaccommodating collapse: not accommodating; "the unaccommodating bus driver pulled out while she was banging on the door"; offering no assistance; "rudely unaccommodating to the customers"; "icily neutral, disagreeably unhelpful"

nit picking collapse

beefing collapse

grousing 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

envious collapse

unfulfilled collapse: of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions"

niggle collapse

disgruntled collapse: in a state of sulky dissatisfaction

obloquy collapse: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

plangent collapse: loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority"

quibbling collapse

muttering collapse

dissatisfied collapse

petulance collapse

whining collapse: long and high-pitched like a whine or plaintive crying

grumbling collapse: muttering discontentedly; "the grumbling boarders requested a meeting with the cook"; continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder"

bellyache collapse

discontented collapse: showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing; "saw many discontent faces in the room"; "was discontented with his position"

peevish collapse

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