Someone who is critical of the motives of others.

synonym: faultfinder.

Roget 487: incredulousness^†, incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism^†; want of faith etc. (irreligion) 989^†.    suspiciousness etc. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion etc. (unbelief) 485.    mistrust, cynicism.    unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever.   1, pyrrhonist; heretic etc. (heterodox) 984.    ... show more

Roget 911: misanthropy, incivism; egotism etc. (selfishness) 943; moroseness etc. 901.1; cynicism.    misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon, Diogenes.    woman hater, misogynist.    ... show more

Roget 936: detractor, reprover; censor, censurer; cynic, 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 etc. 901; muckraker.    disapprover, laudator temporis acti [Lat.] [Horace]. ... show more

Roget 955: asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism^†; cynicism^†, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism^†.    mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance etc. 952; fasting etc. 956; martyrdom.    ascetic; anchoret^†, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos^†; hermit etc. (recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian^†, cynic, sanyasi^†, yogi.    ... show more

Dutch: cynicus
Polish: cynik

A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control.

Polish: cynik