find fault

1. 1.

   harass with constant criticism

   “Don't always pick on your little brother”

   Synonymsblamepick

   Broaderknock

Questions about find fault

What does find fault mean?

find fault means "harass with constant criticism".

What is another word for find fault?

Close synonyms include blame, pick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is find fault a common word?

find fault is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.