find fault
See also: findfault
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editfind fault (third-person singular simple present finds fault, present participle finding fault, simple past and past participle found fault)
- (intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by with) To criticize something excessively.
- No matter what I do, he always finds fault.
- My supervisor always finds fault with my work.
- 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:
- When one has an intimate knowledge of a business it is easy—and to some extent self-satisfying—to find fault with the way it is run by those in charge.
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editcriticize excessively
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