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captious

Tending to find fault or raise petty objections.

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carping cavilling censorious critical criticizing disapproving fault-finding hair-splitting hypercritical judgemental niggling nitpicking overcritical pass-remarkable pedantic pernickety persnickety pettifogging quibbling

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