faultfind

English

Alternative forms

fault-find

Etymology

Back-formation from faultfinding, faultfinder, etc., equivalent to fault +‎ find.

Verb

faultfind (third-person singular simple present faultfinds, present participle faultfinding, simple past and past participle faultfound)

(transitive) To find fault (with)
- 1868, William Bush, Ocean's Wave:
  Be not always faultfinding, even when your husband should once in a while stay a little too long from home, or commit some other impropriety, according to your standard of moral measures.
- 1888, Emily Sarah Holt, The King's Daughters:
  We've fault-found enough for one even.
- 1914, The Gospel Trumpet, volume 34, page 346:
  Do not allow any one to enter your congregation who faultfinds the brethren in the publishing-work and insinuates against the ministry; who says, “The work is drifting into a compromise, and The Gospel Trumpet, which once brought us such inspiring messages, has also compromised.” […]
- 1914, The American Magazine, volume 77, page 70:
  How the little ones and I would do the many chores about the house and make all bright and cheery, hoping to please "Papa," but he had always a grievance, was always faultfinding, and if there could be no possible complaint made about thing at home, […]
- 2012, Charles Elford, Black Mahler:
  He always seemed angry and needlessly rough with his work as he fumed and fault-found.
- 2015, Roaimah Omar, Hasan Bahrom, Geraldine de Mello, Islamic perspectives relating to business, arts, culture and communication:
  It is normal for politicians to faultfind each other including character smearing.
- 2015, David C. Cox, Introduction to Focused Ion Beam Nanometrology:
  The early adopters, chiefly the semiconductor community, used the instruments to check their production processes and to fault-find when things had gone wrong.
- 2016, Sarah Lees, Starting a Cleaning Business:
  No matter what you do, they are prone to fault-find.

Anagrams

find fault, findfault