faultfind

• fault-find

Back-formation from faultfinding, faultfinder, etc., equivalent to fault +‎ find.

faultfind (third-person singular simple present faultfinds, present participle faultfinding, simple past and past participle faultfound)

1. (transitive) To find fault (with)
   • 1868, William Bush, Ocean's Wave:

     Be not always faultfinding, even when your husband should once in a while stay a little too long from home, or commit some other impropriety, according to your standard of moral measures.

   • 1888, Emily Sarah Holt, The King's Daughters:

     We've fault-found enough for one even.

   • 1914, The Gospel Trumpet, volume 34, page 346:

     Do not allow any one to enter your congregation who faultfinds the brethren in the publishing-work and insinuates against the ministry; who says, “The work is drifting into a compromise, and The Gospel Trumpet, which once brought us such inspiring messages, has also compromised.” […]

   • 1914, The American Magazine, volume 77, page 70:

     How the little ones and I would do the many chores about the house and make all bright and cheery, hoping to please "Papa," but he had always a grievance, was always faultfinding, and if there could be no possible complaint made about thing at home, […]

   • 2012, Charles Elford, Black Mahler:

     He always seemed angry and needlessly rough with his work as he fumed and fault-found.

   • 2015, Roaimah Omar, Hasan Bahrom, Geraldine de Mello, Islamic perspectives relating to business, arts, culture and communication:

     It is normal for politicians to faultfind each other including character smearing.

   • 2015, David C. Cox, Introduction to Focused Ion Beam Nanometrology:

     The early adopters, chiefly the semiconductor community, used the instruments to check their production processes and to fault-find when things had gone wrong.

   • 2016, Sarah Lees, Starting a Cleaning Business:

     No matter what you do, they are prone to fault-find.

• find fault, findfault