Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is given to petty criticism and constant complaint.
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- noun A person who
finds fault
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Examples
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When Job complains, God says, Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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When Job complains, God says, Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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When Job complains, God says, Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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If I were a critical faultfinder, keeping an account of everything she did wrong, then our relationship would suffer.
Become a Better You Joel Osteen 2007
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The internal critic is your automatic faultfinder.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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The internal critic is your automatic faultfinder.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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The internal critic is your automatic faultfinder.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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The noon whistles blew before Sam's task was finished, but by the time he departed for lunch there was made a bed of such quality that Whitey must needs have been born faultfinder if he complained of it.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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He was never a mere faultfinder, but he was endowed with the gifts of imagination and sympathy, leading him to feel himself a part of every situation he was placed in, and with the irrepressible impulse to action driving him to take upon himself the burden of it.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904
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