Reverse Dictionary: FAULT-FINDING

ADJECTIVES
​► BLAMEFUL conveying blame or censure; blaming, fault-finding → c1386
► CAPPERNISHIOUS short-tempered, fretful and finding fault continually → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CARNAPTIOUS irritable, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, fault-finding → 1890 Sc. & Irish
► CATCHY ready to find fault, irritable → 1896 Eng. dial.
► FAULTY given to finding fault, grumbling, scolding → 1873 Eng. dial.
► GNATTERY ill-tempered, cross, peevish; petulant, fault-finding, grumbling, querulous → 1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GRUMLY fault-finding, grumbling, irritable → 1894 Sc.
► OWLY complaining, finding fault → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PICKETY fussy, particular, fault-finding, hypercritical → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PICK-FAULT fault-finding → 1565 obs.
► QUARRELLOUS quarrelsome, contentious; fault-finding → 1556 obs.
► QUARRELSOME faultfinding, given to contradiction, litigious → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► QUERULENTIAL querulous; fault-finding; complaining, prone to making complaints → 1786 obs.
► SNIFFY scornful, disdainful; haughtily fastidious; fault-finding → 1871 sl.
► SNIFTY disdainful, haughty, fault-finding; petty, mean → 1871 Amer. sl.
► SNOOKY critical, fault-finding → 1910s Aust. sl.
► SNUFFY annoyed, displeased, ready to take offense, touchy; sulky, angry, vexed, fault-finding; unpleasant, disagreeable → 1678
► TEMPERED finding fault, complaining → 1969 Amer. dial.
► TICKY finding fault, complaining → 1894 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► NARG continual grumbling, importuning, or fault-finding; peevish wrangling → 1866 Sc.
► THROUGH-THE-MUIR a quarrel, contention; a fault-finding → 1871 Sc.
► THROUGH-THE-WUD-LADDIE a quarrel, contention; a fault-finding → 1824 Sc.
► YARKING incessant fault-finding → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► ARG a faultfinder → 1968 Amer. dial.
► AZZALD an ill-tempered person; an habitual fault-finder → 1881 Eng. dial.
► BARKER one who complains; a faultfinder → 1855 (Bk.)
► BEEFER a whinger, a complainer, a grumbler, a faultfinder → 1893 US sl.
► BELCHER a complainant or faultfinder → 1931 US sl.
► BITCHER one who is always complaining or finding fault → 1937 Amer. dial.
► BITCH QUEEN one who finds fault with everything; one who constantly complains; a spiteful shrew → 1972 homosexual sl.  (Bk.)
► CALLET a scold, a virago, a constant fault-finder; a quarrelsome person → 1781 Eng. dial.
► CRABBER  a person who finds fault or criticizes adversely → 1909
► GROUCH-BOX an irritable or grouchy person; a scolder; a mean, bad-tempered person; one who always finds fault; a complainer → 1960 Amer. dial.
► GROUCH-POT an irritable or grouchy person; a scolder; a mean, bad-tempered person; one who always finds fault; a complainer → 1968 Amer. dial.
► HENNY a person who is very particular or fussy; one who worries a lot about little things; a person who is always finding fault about unimportant things → 1950 Amer. dial.
► KICKER a person who objects; a fault-finder → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► KNOCKER a disparaging critic; a fault-finder; one who is addicted to captious criticism → 1898 colloq., orig. US
► MAG a scold, a fault-finding woman → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOANER a complainer or fault-finder; a whinger; a pessimist → 1628 colloq.
► MOME a carping critic; a querulous fault-finding person  → 1563 obs.
► MOMIST a fault-finder → 1597 obs.
► MOMUS a person who habitually grumbles or finds fault; a querulous person; a carping critic → a1586
► MOMUSITE a supposed follower of Momus (the Greek god of censure and ridicule, who was banished from Olympus for his criticisms of the gods); a person who habitually grumbles or finds fault; a carping critic → 1655 obs.
► NAG a person who finds fault or complains habitually → 1885
► NATTER a fault-finder → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NICK-PICKER a nit-picker; one who finds faults, however small or unimportant, everywhere they look → 1970 Amer. dial.
► NIGMANIE a quarrelsome, hypercritical person; one who picks faults → 1920 Sc. 
► NIGNAY a quarrelsome hypercritical person; one who picks faults → 1920 Sc.
► PECKY a person who is always finding fault about unimportant things → 1969 Amer. dial.
► PICK-FAULT  one who is ready to find fault; a censorious person → 1546 obs.
► PICK-MOTE one who draws attention to trivial faults in others → 1549 obs.
► PICK-POT a person who is always finding fault about unimportant things → 1965 Amer. dial.
► QUARRELOUR one who reproves or rebukes; a faultfinder → 1825 Sc.
► SCRAE an ill-natured, fault-finding person → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SMELLFUNGUS a discontented person; a grumbler; a faultfinder → 1807
► SNARLER an ill-tempered, grumbling, or fault-finding person → 1634
► TAXER one who finds fault, accuses, or censures; one who blames → 1601 obs.
► YOWPER a fault-finder → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ANNY to scold or find fault; to use irritating language → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ANTLE to keep on repeating a complaint; to keep on grumbling or fault-finding → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► AWREAK to condemn, to blame, to find fault with → c1275 obs.
► BEEF to find fault with → 1904 Amer. students’ usage (Bk.)
► BELACK to depreciate, to find fault with → a1555 obs.
► BEQUARREL to quarrel with; to find fault with, to abuse → 1624 obs.
► CABAL to quarrel, to dispute, to find fault with → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CABBLE to find fault with in a querulous manner → 1866 Sc.
► CHANTER to go about grumbling and fault-finding → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► CHOUNTER ► CHUNDER ► CHUNNER ► CHUNTER to mutter, to murmur; to grumble in a discontented or ill-tempered manner, to express discontent about trifles, to find fault, to complain incessantly; to have the last word in a matter → 1599
► CHUSE to reprehend; to find fault; to accuse → 1880 (Bk.)
► COMB ONE’S HAIR to whip, to beat, to thrash; to scold severely, to find fault with → 1928 Amer. dial.
► COMB ONE’S HEAD to whip, to beat, to thrash; to scold severely, to find fault with → 1795 Amer. dial.
► COMB ONE’S WOOL to whip, to beat, to thrash; to scold severely, to find fault with → 1927 Amer. dial.
► CORRECT MAGNIFICAT to find fault unreasonably and presumptuously → M16 colloq.
► CRAB to criticize adversely, to find fault with → 1819 sl.
► CRITIZE to criticize a person or thing; to censure, to find fault with → 1631 obs.
► CULPABLE to blame, to find fault with → 1548 obs.
► CULPATE to blame, to find fault with → 1548 obs.
​► EGG to tease, to annoy, to pester, to irritate; to importune, to find fault continually, to nag → 1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► FIND A HAIR IN THE NECK to find fault with → 1836 Sc.
► FRATCH to disagree, to quarrel, to dispute; to wrangle; to scold, to find fault with → 1714 chiefly Eng. dial.
► GNAGGLE to grumble or fret continually; to scold, to find fault with → 1892 Eng. dial.
► GRAIG to find fault with; to grumble at in a hypocritical way → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAG to complain, to find fault  → 1806 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► HAVE A CROW TO PLUCK WITH ANY ONE to have something disagreeable or awkward to settle with him; to have a matter of dispute, or something requiring explanation, to clear up; to have some fault to find with one → c1460
► HAVE A HAIR IN THE NECK to find fault with → 1836 Sc.
► INCULP to find fault with; to accuse; to blame → 1612 obs.
► MAG to scold, to complain, to find fault → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOUSE to complain, to gripe, to find fault → 1968 Amer. dial.
► NAG to scold, or find fault persistently → 1846 sl.
► NAGGER to complain continually; to find fault with; to tease → 1868 Eng. dial.
► NARG to keep grumbling and finding fault; to be peevish; to argue snappishly; to nag, to taunt → 1824 Sc.
► NICK to find fault with someone → 1979 US sl.
► NIRP to find fault; to nag ..1934 Sc. 
► PECK ► PECK AT to nag at; to find fault with → 1870 Amer. dial.
► PERSTRINGE to censure; to take to task; to criticize adversely, to find fault with → 1549
► PICK AT to quarrel with; to find fault; to complain → 1899 Amer. dial.
► PICK FLIES OFF to find fault with → 1860 tailors’ sl.
► QUARREL to question, to call to account, to challenge; to find fault with, to rebuke; to object to → 1709 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► READ OFF to scold; to find fault with → 19C Eng. dial.
► SAUCE to scold; to find fault with; to abuse → 1882 Eng. dial.
► SAY BLACK IS THE WHITE OF A PERSON’S EYE to find fault with a person → 1742
► TAX to find fault with; to scold → 1806 Sc.
► TICK to complain; to find fault → World War I Amer. sl.
► TWINK to chastise; to blame; to find fault with → 1747 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TWIT to censure, reproach, or upbraid a person, esp. in a good-humoured or teasing way; to find fault with; to blame; to taunt → 1530
► UPBRAY to upbraid; to reproach, reprove, or censure; to find fault with, to carp at → 1581 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YARM to scold; to speak ill-naturedly; to find fault, to grumble → 1790 Eng. dial.