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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be faultfinding"
2: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" [syn: captious, faultfinding] n
1: persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn: faultfinding, carping]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1622 disposed to find fault ; captiously critical Synonyms: see critical II. noun Date: circa 1611 petty, nagging, or unreasonable criticism

Moby Thesaurus

Jeremianic, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, complaining, complaint, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, criticism, croaking, cynical, destructive criticism, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dissent, envious, exception, flak, fretful, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouchy, grouse, grousing, growling, grumbling, hairsplitting, hit, holler, home thrust, hostile criticism, howl, howling, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, kick, kicking, knock, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, out of humor, overcritical, overcriticalness, peeve, peevish, peevishness, pestering, pet peeve, pettifogging, petulance, petulant, plaintive, plangent, priggishness, protest, puling, querulant, querulous, querulousness, quibble, quibbling, rap, rebellious, reflection, reproachfulness, resentful, restive, restless, scolding, slam, sniping, sorrowful, squawk, squawking, stricture, sulky, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, ultracritical, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, yapping