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fault-finding

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fault-finding
n
1. continual and usually trivial criticism
2. (Electronics) the systematic investigation of malfunctions in electronic apparatus
adj
given to finding fault
fault-finder  n
Translations
fault-finding [ˈfɔːltˌfaɪndɪŋ]
A. ADJcriticón, reparón
B. Nmanía f de criticar
fault-finding [ˈfɔːltˌfaɪndɪŋ]
1. adjipercritico/a
2. ncritica pedante


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It had seemed to her during the autumn and winter of that year as if her aunt Miranda had never been, save at the very first, so censorious and so fault-finding.
Zenobia's fault-finding was of the silent kind, but not the less penetrating for that.
I could see enough in America to find fault with, through the creaks of the drawer, and if an American, I might have indulged a little in the same way myself, for I am not one of those who think fault-finding belongs properly to the stranger, and not to the native.
 
 
 
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