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adj. inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

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admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving

adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

faultfinding, captious

adj. tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

carping, caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling, cavilling

adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

censorious

adj. harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

vituperative

adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"

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