Related Clues:
- Captious, carping or crucial
- At crucial stage, or being disparaging
- Urgent or carping
- Looking for faults, or at important point
- Captious, carping
- Vital or carping
- Looking for faults, like reviewer?
- Finding fault - at a dangerous stage
- Calling attention to errors and flaws
- Tending to find fault
- Might one be having an unfavourable reaction to the mass that starts things going?
- One may be critical of the promises to pay of the officer
- Not in agreement with a state that's so dangerous
- It's crucial to be so adverse
- Being a bit negative in a crisis