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

From Forbes • Oct. 14, 2014

But he was a natural fault-finder, and by no means a natural peacemaker; and his impartiality had no effect in assuaging the animosities which he found.

From Benjamin Franklin by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

“If you had hitched the horses to the wagon after you had pulled it out of the hole, why—” The rider looked at the fault-finder, his eyes narrowed.

From The Range Boss by Schoonover, Frank Earle

The great man looked at Simon, and said scornfully:-- "You are only an old fault-finder."

From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy

It is possible that, even in this brief sketch, some faults of the book may appear; it is certain that actual reading of it will not utterly deprive the fault-finder of his prey.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George