critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur; barracker†.
defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner,
satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker†, Thersites†;
Zoilus; good-natured friend [Iron.]; reviler, vituperator, castigator;
shrew &c 901; muckraker.
disapprover, laudator temporis acti [Lat.] [Horace].
Adj. black-mouthed, abusive &c 934.