faultfinder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of faultfinder
Example Sentences
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The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week a canny faultfinder was being tuned up by Nashville's George Peabody College for Teachers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said of himself that he had been sentenced by his nature to be the faultfinder, to see the other side of things.
From Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter by Oland, Warner
He is a natural born faultfinder and grouchy by nature.
From Laugh and Live by Fairbanks, Douglas
It only means that the teacher, in making corrections or calling attention to failures, shall manifest the spirit of a helper and not of a faultfinder.
From The Recitation by Betts, George Herbert
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