criticón

adj.

faultfinding, nit-picking, fault-finding, nitpicking.

m.

faultfinder, nit-picker, nitpicker, criticizer.

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criticón

► adjetivo

1 familiar fault finding, nit-picking, hypercritical

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 familiar fault finder, nit-picker

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criticón, -ona *

1.

ADJ hypercritical, critical, faultfinding

es muy criticón — he's always finding fault with people, he's hypercritical, he's so critical

2.

SM / F faultfinder

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I

-cona adjetivo (fam & pey) critical, hypercritical

II

-cona masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder

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= nag, caviller [caviler, -USA], quibbler.

Ex. No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.

Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.

Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.

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I

-cona adjetivo (fam & pey) critical, hypercritical

II

-cona masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder

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= nag, caviller [caviler, -USA], quibbler.

Ex: No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.

Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.

Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.

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criticón¹ -cona

adjective

(fam pey)

1

(chismoso): ¡qué criticón es! he's such a terrible gossip (colloq)

2 (quisquilloso) critical, hypercritical

es tan criticona she always finds fault with everything, she's so critical o hypercritical

criticón² -cona

masculine, feminine

(fam pey)

1

(chismoso): es un criticón he's a terrible gossip (colloq)

2 (quisquilloso) faultfinder

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criticón

◊ -cona adjetivo (fam &

pey) critical, hypercritical
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder
criticón,-ona adj pey critical: mis colegas son muy criticones, my colleagues are very critical
'criticón' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
criticona
English:
faultfinding

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criticón, -ona

♦ adj

nit-picking, hypercritical;

no seas tan criticón don't be so nit-picking, stop criticizing all the time

♦ nm,f

nit-picker;

es un criticón he finds fault with everything, he does nothing but criticize

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criticón

fam

I adj nit-picking

II m, criticona f nit-picker

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criticón, -cona adj, mpl -cones fam : hypercritical, captious

criticón, -cona n, mpl -cones fam : faultfinder, critic