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hypercritical adjective [ hʌɪpəˈkrɪtɪk(ə)l ]

• excessively and unreasonably critical, especially of small faults.
• "he was a sarcastic, hypercritical man"
Similar: carping, captious, overcritical, fault-finding, hair-splitting, cavilling, niggling, quibbling, pedantic, pettifogging, fussy, finicky, over-censorious, over-exacting, over-rigorous, over-particular, over-strict, picky, nitpicking, pass-remarkable, pernickety, persnickety, nice, overnice,
Opposite: easy-going, uncritical,


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