find fault

• “One cannot even find fault with the tiny round hole which they leave when they are taken out; perhaps water-nixies, and such lovely things without souls, have these little round holes in their ears by nature, ready to hang jewels in.”

  Adam Bede

• “By the time the band broke into its next number, “Texas Trilogy,” Miranda was on fire, playing with such passion that not even Bobby could find fault with her.”

  Simon & Schuster: She’s Got the Beat

• “They are flawless, with flecked stems and stout caps, and there is nothing to find fault with except for one thing—they are not belye.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

• “I met Lord Brouncker, who, I perceive, and the rest, do smell that it comes from me, but dare not find fault with it; and I am glad of it, it being my glory and defence that I did occasion and write it.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668

• “It was almost a given that there'd be something to find fault with, and he could add another item to the list of failures being chalked up against Captain Jester's record.”

  Phule me twice

• “So grim had Thorin become, that even if they had wished, the others would not have dared to find fault with him; but indeed most of them seemed to share his mind-except perhaps old fat Bombur and Fili and Kili.”

  The Hobbit

• “Inclined to find fault without warrant, many commentators have all kinds of flaws to pick with this expression.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• ““But if you accept the principle of pose,” said Lestrange, “I don't see that you can find fault with any pose.””

  Father Payne

• “If it be wisdom on her part," said he, answering Lady Laura's last words, "you cannot find fault with her for her decision.”

  Phineas Finn

• “Detective Bowen would find fault with her vanity, and Duncan Hatcher …”

  Ricochet

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