carping
adjective
she has silenced the carping critics with a massively successful debut tour:
complaining, cavilling, grumbling, moaning, grousing, grouching, grouchy, whining, bleating, fault-finding, quibbling, niggling, captious, nagging;
critical, criticizing, censorious, condemnatory, disparaging, scathing, slighting, reproachful, deprecatory, hypercritical, overcritical, pedantic, hard/difficult/impossible to please;
Scottish, & Irish pass-remarkable;
informal griping, bellyaching, bitching, nitpicking, hairsplitting, picky;
British, informal whingeing, chuntering;
Northern English, informal mithering;
North American, informal kvetching.
▷antonyms forgiving; complimentary.