hair-splitter

Example Sentences

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"You are the hair-splitter this time," said he, ruefully.

From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by Bangs, John Kendrick

He isn't going to be the dead easy mark I hoped to find in the son of the old bankrupt hair-splitter, Genie, girl.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis

His judges considered him as an unreasonable man, a gifted sophist fertile in inventing objections in and out of season, a hair-splitter perpetually arguing for argument's sake.

From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James

So severely dialectical was he that he seemed to be a hair-splitter.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by Lord, John

Folks say she's a regular hair-splitter when it comes to settlements.

From Dixie Hart by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)