nit-picking

acrimonious cantankerous carping caviling cavillous censorious contrary crabby cross demanding deprecating disparaging exacting exceptive fault-finding finicky hypercritical irritable nagging overcritical peevish perverse petulant sarcastic severe testy touchy

commendatory complimentary encouraging flattering laudatory praising

bellyaching caviling criticizing disparaging griping grousing grumbling kvetching moaning nagging niggling quibbling whining

censorious critical deprecatory fault-finding grouchy hypercritical overcritical scathing

complimentary forgiving

demanding

analytical belittling biting calumniatory captious carping caviling cavillous censorious censuring choleric condemning critic cutting cynical demeaning derogatory diagnostic disapproving discerning discriminating disparaging exacting exceptive finicky fussy hairsplitting humbling hypercritical lowering nagging niggling overcritical particular penetrating reproachful sarcastic satirical scolding severe sharp trenchant withering

complimentary laudatory praising trivial uncritical unimportant

harsh imperious onerous painstaking precise rigid rigorous strict stringent

taxing trying

burdensome by the book careful critical difficult exigent finicky fussy grievous hard hypercritical oppressive particular persnickety picky severe stern tough unsparing weighty

careless easy easygoing flexible inexact lenient loose mild soft tolerant yielding

giving lending

captious carping fussy hairsplitting hard to please hypercritical nagging niggling overcritical pettifogging quibbling

choosy fastidious fussy scrupulous squeamish

critical dainty difficult finical finicking fussbudget hard to please nice overnice persnickety picky stickling

uncritical undemanding unfussy

easy open

choosy conscientious discriminating finicky scrupulous squeamish

careful conscionable dainty difficult exact exacting fastidious finical fretful fuddy-duddy hard to please heedful overfastidious painstaking persnickety picky picky-picky punctilious punctual querulous stickling

careless uncritical unscrupulous

undemanding unfussy

choosy critical demanding detailed finicky fussy meticulous particular picky scrutinizing

undemanding

carping caviling censorious critical demanding faultfinding finicky fussy hair-splitting hard to please niggling overcritical persnickety

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting learned literary ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pedantical pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

analytical belittling biting calumniatory captious carping caviling cavillous censorious censuring choleric condemning critic cutting cynical demanding demeaning derogatory diagnostic disapproving discerning discriminating disparaging exacting exceptive faultfinding finicky fussy hairsplitting humbling hypercritical lowering nagging niggling particular penetrating reproachful sarcastic satirical scolding severe sharp trenchant withering

dainty nice rough stickler tough

careful choicy choosy critical discriminating exacting fastidious finical fussbudget fussy hard to please meticulous persnickety picky

easy

common general imprecise indefinite indifferent inexact nonchalant ordinary undemanding undiscriminating unimportant usual

abstruse pompous stilted

academic arid didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal fussy hairsplitting learned ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious

plain simple

imprecise informal

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting inkhorn learned literary ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

demure

correct spruce stickling tidy uncluttered

Victorian blue-nose ceremonial ceremonious choosy cleanly conventional dapper decorous fastidious formal genteel good goody-goody nice orderly overmodest polite precise priggish prissy proper prudish puritanical rigid shipshape spick-and-span stiff straight strait-laced stuffy upright well-groomed wooden

untidy

informal rumpled

complaining griping niggling

fault-finding hairsplitting

denunciation objection

animadversion aspersion blast brickbats carping cavil censure cut disparagement faultfinding flak hit knock opprobrium pan quibble reproof roast slam slap static stricture swipe vitriol zapper

Bronx cheer bad press call down caviling critical remarks panning put down rap on knuckles slap on wrist

approval compliment flattery praise sanction

estimation guess supposition