---

• n  persistent petty and unjustified criticism
• s  tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions
  a counselor tries not to be faultfinding
• s  tending to find and call attention to faults
  an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor

• Since 1923, the Congresses have appropriated only $55,971,630 less than the Budget Bureau's estimates, or a margin of faultfinding and disagreement of less than .
• Impelled by her stupid and melancholy faultfinding, her two daughters and son rebelled by getting married.
• To the filmmakers, the disintegration of a marriage is not at all an occasion for faultfinding or for a highly compressed dramatic crisis.

• carping
• captious