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blemish, taint, spot, stain; frailty, weakness, infirmity, foible, shortcoming, failing.
2. error, mistake, inaccuracy; omission, oversight, slip-up, slip, lapse; blunder, botch, fumble, foozle, SI. boo-boo, SI. goof, SI. boner; gaffe, gaucherie, faux pas.
3. misdeed, misdemeanor, transgression, offense, wrong; misconduct, misbehavior; sin, vice, indiscretion, peccadillo.
4. responsibility, blamability, blameworthiness, answerability, accountability.
5. at fault blameworthy, censurable, culpable, blam-able; responsible, answerable, accountable; guilty, wrong, in the wrong.
6. find fault complain, criticize, carp; cavil, quibble, Inf. nitpick, pettifog; frown upon, take exception to, pick holes in.
7. to a fault excessively, immoderately, unreasonable, unduly, overmuch, too much; extremely, exceedingly, needlessly, out of all proportion, preposterously.
-v. 8. blunder, fumble, boggle, botch or botch up, mess up, hash up, muff, foozle, Inf. flub, SI. goof or goof up, SI. screw up; flounder, stumble, bungle, slip; err, slip up, make a mistake, miscalculate, misjudge, misreckon, mistake.
9. find fault with, censure, upbraid, reproach, rebuke, reprehend; reprove, tax, take to task, call to account; impugn, assail, revile, call into question; stigmatize, brand, asperse, cast aspersions on, malign, slander, defame, vilify; attack, inveigh against, rail against, declaim against.
10. blame, accuse, SI. stick or pin [s.t.] on [s.o.], hold [s.o.] accountable or responsible, lay at [s.o.'sj door, point the finger at [s.o.]; (all in reference to culpability) allege, ascribe, attribute, assign, impute, lay.

faultfinder, n. carper, caviler, quibbler, pettifogger, fussbudget, momus, smellfungus, Inf. nitpicker; critic, censor, Mrs. Grundy, Inf. fuddy-duddy, Rare, arist-arch; censurer, detractor, derogator, backbiter, Inf. knocker; crab, bear, curmudgeon, Inf. crank, Inf crosspatch, Inf. grouch, Inf. grouser, Inf. sorehead, Inf. squawker, SI. bellyacher.

faultfinding, n. 1. pettifoggery, carping, caviling, quibbling, niggling, hairsplitting, Inf. nitpicking; hypercriticism, over criticism, criticism, captiousness, censoriousness.
-adj. 2. captious, censorious, severe, hypercritical, overcritical, critical; querulous, contentious, carping, caviling, quibbling, pettifogging, hairsplitting, niggling, Inf. nitpicking; bad-tempered, ill-tempered ill-disposed, cross, crabby, Inf. grouchy, Inf. sore, SI. bellyaching.

faultless, adj. perfect, letter-perfect, ideal, impeccable, absolute, flawless, Brit. Inf. spot on; innocent, blameless, guiltless, inculpable, unimpeachable, above reproach or suspicion; immaculate, pure, sinless, spotless, unblemished, untainted,

faulty, adj. 1. defective, imperfect, unsound, Inf. on the blink, Inf. on the fritz; incomplete, insufficient, inadequate, deficient, lacking, wanting; unfinished, partial, sketchy, uneven.
2. wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, erroneous, untrue, fallacious; illogical, invalid, flawed, fallible, Logic. paralogical.
3. blameworthy, reprehensible, censurable, impeachable, reproachable, reprovable, indictable.

faux pas, n. 1. gaffe, social blunder or indiscretion, slip in conduct, mistake in conduct or etiquette or propriety, breach of etiquette or manners; transgression, dereliction, misconduct, misdeed; false step, wrong