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bad press collapse

animadversion collapse

fault-finding collapse

carping 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

parrying collapse

fencing collapse: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)

legalistic collapse

obloquy collapse: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

logic chopping collapse

quibbling collapse

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

pettifoggery collapse

overcritical collapse

pestering collapse

dodging collapse

nagging 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"

pussyfooting collapse

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

finicky collapse

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

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"

prevarication collapse

hedging collapse

priggish collapse: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

fastidious collapse: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"; having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

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

fussy collapse

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

halfwit collapse

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