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Find fault   /faɪnd fɔlt/   Listen
Find fault

verb
1.
Harass with constant criticism.  Synonyms: blame, pick.






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"Find fault" Quotes from Famous Books



... for you," jibed Logan. "Always trying to find fault." He winked at Ruiz and rubbed his ...
— Tight Squeeze • Dean Charles Ing

... not one to find fault unnecessarily. I know it is the duty of a Christian to be patient and long-suffering; but there is a limit to one's endurance, and I regret to say that you have passed that limit. I should not be fulfilling my duty to a young person who is under my charge if I refrained from pointing out ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice

... find fault with such a sweet, winning young creature, I shall think it is all because you will not endure a mistress at Gowanbrae ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge

... their fellows, and this was such a horse. He was such a creature that, if he had been led to a barrier, the entire crowd at the race track would rise as one man and say: "What is that horse?" There were points in which some critics would find fault; most of the men of the mountain-desert, for instance, would have said that the animal was too lightly and delicately limbed for long endurance; but as the man of men bears the stamp of his greatness in his forehead and his eyes, so it was with the black stallion. ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... have faith," she admonished him, "if you are to win your inheritance; and not question or doubt or find fault, or—or make fun of anything. It says right here on the title-page, 'And now if there be faults, it be the mistake of men; wherefore condemn not the things of God that ye may be found spotless at the judgment seat of Christ.' ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson


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