Find Fault

Definition: Find Fault

Find Fault

Verb

1. Harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Find Fault

Disapprobation

Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.

Crosswords: Find Fault

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody.

Some would find fault with the morning red, if they ever got up early enough.

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Expressions using "find fault": find fault with ♦ find fault with smb. ♦ To find fault ♦ To find fault with. Additional references.

Albanian

grindem (altercate, Bicker, brawl, cample, carp, differ, disagree, dispute, fall out, fight, find fault with, fray, fret, grizzle, grouse, have words with, Pule, quarrel, spat, swear, wrangle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عاب (carp, fault, nibble, pick holes in, reproach, stain), ‏إنتقد (carp, criticize, fault, lace, maul, nibble, peck, quarrel, slash, slate, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упреквам (animadvert, condemn, objurgate, reproach, taunt, twit, upbraid), не харесвам (disapprove, dislike). (various references)

Chinese 

謫 (disgrace). (various references)

Czech

vytýkat chyby komu (find fault with smb.), kritizovat koho (find fault with smb., hit at smb., snipe). (various references)

Finnish

vikoilla. (various references)

French

reprocher, critiquer. (various references)

German

kritteln (cavil, niggle, niggling, quibble), herumnörgeln (nag), aussetzen (abandon, adjourn, bequeath, break off, cut out, defer, expose, fail, give out, interrupt, launch, lower, make a halt, maroon, Miss, occur intermittently, offer, plant out, put up, release, set out, shoot, sit out, stay, suspend, to suspend). (various references)

Greek 

βρίσκω λάθοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

למצוא פ�'ם (fault, pick holes in). (various references)

Hungarian

hibát talál. (various references)

Indonesian

mencereweti (criticize, find fault with, order about), mencacat (criticize, find fault with). (various references)

Italian

ridire (object, object to, repeat to, say again, tell again). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

揚�'足 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あ�'あし. (various references)

Pig Latin

indfay aultfay

Portuguese

omissão (default, forfeit, nonfeasance, omission, pretermit). (various references)

Romanian

gãsi cusur (find fault with). (various references)

Russian 

найти изъян, придраться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pronaći grešku. (various references)

Spanish

encontrar fallas (pick holes in). (various references)

Swedish

hacka (cavil, chop, chopper, grubber, hack, haggle, hash, hesitate, hoe, little cash, mattock, mince, nag, Peck, pick, pickax, plain card, small card, stammer). (various references)

Turkish

kusur bulmak (arraign, carp, cast reflection on smb., cavil, crab, criticize, fault, pick at, pick holes in, pick on, reflect on, reflect upon, reprehend). (various references)

Turkmen 

yrsaramak (find fault with). (various references)

Ukranian 

чиплятися (find fault with). (various references)

accusabant, accusabit, accusamus, accusans, accusant, accusantes, accusantium, accusare, accusarent, accusaretur, accusari, accusat, accusator, accusatur, accusaturus, accusatus, accusaverunt, accusavit, accusent, accuses, accuset, accusor, damna, damnabit, damnabunt, damnatorum, damnatus, damnavit, damno. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: antiflu.

-3 letters: aidful, fitful, flaunt, indult, tinful, tuladi, unlaid.

-4 letters: adult, audit, daunt, dulia, faint, fauld, fault, final, flint, fluid, fundi, luffa, nidal, tidal, ulnad, unfit, unlit, until.

-5 letters: adit, alif, alit, anil, anti, auld, aunt, daff, daft, daut, dial, dint, dita, dual, duff, duit, dunt, fail, fain, faun, fiat, fila, find, flan, flat.

+2 letters: faultfinder, insufflated.

+3 letters: faultfinders, faultfinding, unaffiliated.

+4 letters: faultfindings.

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