pecksniffian β hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
censorious β If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
hair-splitting β the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
reproachful β full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
hypercritical β excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
condemnatory β Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
fretful β disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
grousing β to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
smooth-spoken β speaking or spoken easily and softly.
prevaricative β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
captious β apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
peevish β cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
jivey β resembling, suggesting, or characteristic of jive; lively.
hypocritical β of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a βdo what I say and not what I doβ attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
calumniatory β of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
