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You are a fault-finder who must correct other people when they are wrong.

From Forbes • Oct. 14, 2014

If each fault-finder just—doesn’t find fault, you know,—even in her own mind, there won’t be any fault pretty soon to be found.”

From Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman by Sharp, Annabel

And finding no fault-finder there, he sought among those who lived outside the city, in the suburbs, at the four gates.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Jacobs, Joseph

The fulsome flatterer of former times has degenerated into a chronic fault-finder.

From The Jericho Road by Adkins, W. Bion

He was honest and indefatigable in the pursuit of what he believed to be his duty, and was ill-requited for his labors, but he was a persistent fault-finder and his letters are masterpieces of complaint.

From The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Andrews, Charles McLean