fault-finding

[1]	criticism , censure , carping , cavilling , captiousness , hypercriticism , quibbling , fussiness , hair-splitting , pettifogging , (Colloq) nit-picking , pickiness

adj.

[1]	critical , censorious , carping , cavilling , captious , hypercritical , fussy , hair-splitting , pettifogging , niggling , contentious , querulous , quibbling , (Colloq) nit-picking , picky