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  • noun Plural form of findfault.

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Examples

  • ` ` Pardon mee (good Gentlemen) of my presumption, & protect me, I pray you, < p 82 > against those Cavellers and findfaults, that never like of any thing that they see printed, though it be never so well compiled.

    Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

  • Smell-fungus was Sterne's pseudonym for Smollett; it was later used by such writers as Washington Irving and Frances Trollope for grumbling findfaults in general.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1 1987

  • "Pardon mee (good Gentlemen) of my presumption, & protect me, I pray you, against those Cavellers and findfaults, that never like of any thing that they see printed, though it be never so well compiled.

    Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

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