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TO FIND FAULT WITH

Definition: TO FIND FAULT WITH

TO FIND FAULT WITH

1. To blame; to censure.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: TO FIND FAULT WITH

English words defined with "TO FIND FAULT WITH": To pinch at. (references)

Modern Usage: TO FIND FAULT WITH

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Is it not a brother's job to find fault with his sister? (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Historic Usage: TO FIND FAULT WITH

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	It may perhaps be censured as an impertinent criticism, in a discourse of this nature, to find fault with words and names, that have obtained in the world: and yet possibly it may not be amiss to offer new ones, when the old are apt to lead men into mistakes, as this of paternal power probably has done, which seems so to place the power of parents over their children wholly in the father, as if the mother had no share in it; whereas, if we consult reason or revelation, we shall find, she hath an equal title. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Use in Literature: TO FIND FAULT WITH

Title	Author	Quote
Through the Looking-Glass	Carroll, Lewis	Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: TO FIND FAULT WITH

Language		Translations for "TO FIND FAULT WITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		an jemandem etwas auszusetzen haben (to find fault with someone). (various references)

Hungarian		kritizál (badmouth, criticize, to criticise, to criticize, to get down on sy, to kick, to pass strictures on, to pass strictures upon, to reflect on, to slag, to slag off), hibásnak talál, gáncsoskodik (to crab). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		聞き�'�める , 論う (to criticize, to discuss), 見�'�める (to question), 吝嗇�'付ける (to rain on one's parade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ききとがめる, あ�'つらう (to criticize, to discuss), けち�'つける (to rain on one's parade), みとがめる (to question). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay indfay aultfay ithway
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO FIND FAULT WITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-h-i-i-l-n-o-t-t-t-u-w"
	-5 letters: latifundio.
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Alternative Orthography: TO FIND FAULT WITH

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 46 49 4E 44 46 41 55 4C 54 57 49 54 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000110 01000001 01010101 01001100 01010100 00100000 01010111 01001001 01010100 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0046 0049 004E 0044 0046 0041 0055 004C 0054 0057 0049 0054 0048

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924043483824035554654257435442

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Historic

5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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