Persistently finding small faults (7)

I believe the answer is:

carping

(Other definitions for carping that I've seen before include "Complaining" , "Raising trivial objections" , "Faultfinding" , "Censorious" , "Finding fault" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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