faultfinding

Noun	1.	faultfinding - persistent petty and unjustified criticism Synonyms: carping
Adj.	1.	faultfinding - tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; "a counselor tries not to be faultfinding"
	2.	faultfinding - tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" Synonyms: captious

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