All fault-finding synonyms

adj fault-finding

• critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
• captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
• carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
• fussy — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
• hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
• hypercritical — excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
• niggling — petty; trivial; inconsequential: to quibble about a niggling difference in terminology.
• quibbling — characterized by or consisting of quibbles; carping; niggling: quibbling debates.
• nagging — continually faultfinding, complaining, or petulant: a nagging parent.
• overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
• nit-picking — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.