Usually means: Criticize or complain about something.
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  1. find fault: Merriam-Webster
  2. find fault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. find fault: Collins English Dictionary
  4. find fault: Vocabulary.com
  5. find fault: Wiktionary
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  8. find fault: FreeDictionary.org
  9. find fault: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. find fault: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (find fault)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by with) To criticize something excessively.

Similar:
blame, pick, fault, criticize, pick fault, faultfind, criticise, fault-find, accuse, pick holes, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, approve, laud, extol

Types:
nitpick, quibble, cavil, chide, berate, blame, castigate, condemn, criticize, more...

Phrases:
find fault with, to find fault, to find fault with, find fault in someone, find fault with sth, more...

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Similar:
blame, pick, fault, criticize, pick fault, faultfind, criticise, fault-find, accuse, pick holes, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, approve, laud, extol

Types:
nitpick, quibble, cavil, chide, berate, blame, castigate, condemn, criticize, more...

Phrases:
find fault with, to find fault, to find fault with, find fault in someone, find fault with sth, more...



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