Apt to catch at faults or take exception to actions; disposed to find fault, cavil, or raise objections; fault-finding, cavilling, carping.

(a) n. a fault-finder; †(b) adj. fault-finding (Obsolete).

Scrupulously or minutely concerned with refinement in matters of taste or propriety; having exacting standards or paying meticulous attention to…

Having a keen ‘scent’; figurative quick at fault-finding, captious. Obsolete.

Full of cavils or cavilling; (of persons) apt to cavil.

Given to carping.

That cavils, captious; also, fraudulent, sophistical (obsolete).

That finds fault, fault-finding.

characteristic of Zoilus or his criticism.

That carps; fault-finding, censorious, captious.

Disposed to make objections; cavilling, peevish, captious.

Quarrelsome, argumentative; litigious; fault-finding. Now chiefly U.S.

Of persons and their utterances: Disposed or tending to take exception; hypercritical, captious.

= Zoilous adj.

Carping, fault-finding. Obsolete.

= pickthank, adj.

= Zoilous adj.

dialect and colloquial. Fault-finding, snappish, sharp; putting on airs, supercilious.

Pedantic; fault-finding; pernickety, fussy.

Excessively pedantic; = nitpicking, adj.