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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"

fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

disagreeable

adj. unpleasant to interact with; "a disagreeable old man"

cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

pernickety, persnickety

adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"

admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving

adj. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective

captious, faultfinding

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

censorious

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

hypercritical, overcritical

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

scathing, vituperative

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

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