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captiousc1380

Apt to catch at faults or take exception to actions; disposed to find fault, cavil, or raise objections; fault-finding, cavilling, carping.

pick-fault1544

(a) n. a fault-finder; †(b) adj. fault-finding (Obsolete).

fastidious?1555

Scrupulously or minutely concerned with refinement in matters of taste or propriety; having exacting standards or paying meticulous attention to…

sharp-nosed1561

Having a keen ‘scent’; figurative quick at fault-finding, captious. Obsolete.

cavillous?1571

Full of cavils or cavilling; (of persons) apt to cavil.

carpacious1574

Given to carping.

cavillinga1576

That cavils, captious; also, fraudulent, sophistical (obsolete).

find-fault1576

That finds fault, fault-finding.

Zoilous1577

characteristic of Zoilus or his criticism.

carpinga1586

That carps; fault-finding, censorious, captious.

exceptious1602

Disposed to make objections; cavilling, peevish, captious.

quarrellous1610

Quarrelsome, argumentative; litigious; fault-finding. Now chiefly U.S.

exceptive1623

Of persons and their utterances: Disposed or tending to take exception; hypercritical, captious.

Zoilitical1665

= Zoilous adj.

nibbling1691

Carping, fault-finding. Obsolete.

pickthanking1830

= pickthank, adj.

Zoilean1846

= Zoilous adj.

snippy1848

dialect and colloquial. Fault-finding, snappish, sharp; putting on airs, supercilious.

nitpicking1948

Pedantic; fault-finding; pernickety, fussy.

nitpicky1962

Excessively pedantic; = nitpicking, adj.

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