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Faultfinding

adjective
1.
Tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions.
2.
Tending to find and call attention to faults.  Synonym: captious.  "An excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"





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"Faultfinding" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the reach of Christian counsel, and justifies himself when affectionately reproved; when he comes to regard the watchfulness of others over him as an unwelcome and irksome thing; [when he charges you with having a spirit of faultfinding, of having no charity, but that you only discourage and press him down when you try to show him his lack of spiritual life],—it is clear that he exhibits no more the fruits of the Holy Spirit's influence ...
— Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians • Charles Ebert Orr


Words linked to "Faultfinding" :   judgmental, unfavorable judgment, criticism, critical


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