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CHIDE |
Find fault |
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PREACH |
Find fault |
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CARP |
Find fault pettily |
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NITPICK |
Find fault pettily |
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NAG |
Find fault continuously |
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CAVIL |
Find trivial fault |
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BLAME |
Find fault with poor Melba |
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ROAST |
Find fault with Sunday joint |
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LACK |
To blame; to find fault with. |
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NATTER |
To find fault; to be peevish. |
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QUARREL |
To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot. |
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CRITICAL |
Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious;
captious; censorious; exacting. |
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FAULT |
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to
blame. |
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CENSURE |
To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to
express disapprobation of. |
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IMPROVE |
To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to
censure; as, to improve negligence. |
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CRITICISE |
To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or
person; esp., to find fault. |
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QUERULOUS |
Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to
murmur; as, a querulous man or people. |
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CAPTIOUS |
Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to
cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. |
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VITUPERATE |
To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with
wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate. |
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SCOLD |
To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to
utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; --
often with at; as, to scold at a servant. |
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COMPLAIN |
To give utterance to expression of grief, pain,
censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly
used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. |