fault-finding
121snippy — 1727, parsimonious; 1848, fault finding, sharp, from SNIP (Cf. snip) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Related: Snippily; snippiness …
122captious — cap·tious || kæpʃəs adj. narrow minded, fault finding, picky …
123carping — carp·ing || kÉ‘Ëpɪŋ adj. tending to complain, nagging, fault finding kÉ‘Ëp n. freshwater fish v. complain, nag, worry …
124censorious — cen·so·ri·ous || sen sÉ”Ërɪəs adj. critical, fault finding …
125nit-picking — informal noun fussy or pedantic fault finding. adjective overly fussy and pedantic. Derivatives nit pick verb nit picker noun …
126captious — a. 1. Censorious, cavilling, carping, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Crabbed, snappish, testy, touchy, waspish, splenetic, cross, snarling, acrimonious, cantankerous (colloq.), contentious. 3. Ensnaring, insidious …
127cavilling — a. 1. Captious, censorious, carping, critical, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Specious, sophistical, plausible, tricky …
128complaining — a. Querulous, murmuring, querimonious, fault finding …