All niggler synonyms
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N n noun niggler
- critic — A critic is a person who writes about and expresses opinions about things such as books, films, music, or art.
- attacker — You can refer to a person who attacks someone as their attacker.
- carper — to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
- caviler — a person who cavils
- censor — If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
- complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- defamer — One who defames.
- disparager — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- doubter — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- maligner — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- nagger — nag1 (def 5).
- nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
- quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
- slanderer — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- worrier — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- zapper — to kill or shoot.
- aristarch — a severe critic.
- backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
- be-little — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
- blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
- censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- criticizer — to censure or find fault with.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- fretter — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- hypercritic — a person who is excessively or captiously critical.
- pan — an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
- reviler — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- sidewalk superintendent — a bystander who watches the building, demolition, repair, or other work being done at a construction site.