Synonyms for find fault
find fault

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1. find fault

   To complain is to give utterance to dissatisfaction or objection, express a sense of wrong or ill treatment. One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable. Complaining is by speech or writing; murmuring is commonly said of half-repressed utterance; repining of the mental act alone. One may complain of an offense to the offender or to others; he remonstrates with the offender only. Complain has a formal and legal meaning, which the other words have not, signifying to make a formal accusation, present a specific charge; the same is true of the noun complaint.

   Synonyms:
   complain, croak, growl, grumble, grunt, murmur, remonstrate, repine

   Antonyms:
   applaud, approve, commend, eulogize, laud, praise

   Preposition:
   Complain of a thing to a person; of one person to another, of or against a person for an act; to an officer; before the court; about a thing.

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1. blame, find fault, pickverb

   harass with constant criticism

   "Don't always pick on your little brother"

   Synonyms:
   charge, pick, peck, cull, clean, beak, fault, nibble, blame, plunk, break up, pluck, foot, piece

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1. find fault

   Synonyms:
   complain, grumble

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1. find fault

   Synonyms:
   object, disapprove, demur, cavil, except, criticize, carp, repine, complain, grumble

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1. Sydney Smith:

   Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

2. Marcus Aurelius:

   Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

3. Scott Pruitt:

   I'm not afraid to admit there's been a learning process and when Congress or independent bodies of oversight find fault in our decision making, I want to correct that and ensure that it does not happen again.

4. Henry Ford:

   Don't find fault, find a remedy.

5. Dante Alighieri:

   There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.