fault-finding

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“This will be a fact-finding, not fault-finding, technical investigation,” James Olthoff, the agency’s director, said at a news conference Wednesday evening.

From Seattle Times

For the purposes of a television drama, it would be difficult to capture a man who, in Herriot’s description, was by turns scattered and obsessively precise, generous and suddenly fault-finding, a man who gently emphasized the importance of forbearance before flying into a temper, who was somehow catnip to women and oblivious to that fact.

From Los Angeles Times

He spoils the whole activity by pouting and fault-finding.

From Seattle Times

“Our technical report will be objective, scientific-based fact-finding—not fault-finding—that lays out recommendations to improve building codes, standards and practices,” Kuligowski said.

From Scientific American

It includes these lines: “Keep us, Oh God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.”

From Washington Times