英和和英

動詞

find fault (third-person singular simple present finds fault, present participle finding fault, simple past and past participle found fault)

1. (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.

同意語

派生語

• faultfinding

参考

• it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

アナグラム

• fault-find, faultfind

名詞

findfault (plural findfaults)

1. (obsolete) A faultfinder.

参照

• “findfault”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• fault-find, faultfind