Faultfinding [adjective]
Definition of Faultfinding:
petty and critical
Sentence/Example of Faultfinding:
Mrs. Hobbs, in spite of her faultfinding and temper, had been a competent and careful housekeeper.
To any who had formed the idea that Mark Twain was irascible, exacting, and faultfinding, they will perhaps be a revelation.
It is no time for faultfinding or resentment, said he, gently.
Nobody ever yet succeeded in that noblest endeavor without abjuring needless faultfinding, croaking and fretting.
A good deal less faultfinding and a good deal more sympathy would be better all around.
The scribes and Pharisees could not let pass such an opportunity for faultfinding and caustic criticism.
But the Creole, satisfied with her splendor, the crowning glory of a humble life, attributed her daughter's faultfinding to envy.
Not his the grudging and faultfinding temper that besets the lesser man when he comes to write of his contemporaries!
"They get more faultfinding as they get older," replied Mr. Peters ungallantly, glancing at the other woman.
Indeed—though I say it not in the way of faultfinding at all—never was there so labyrinthine an abode.