hair-splitter
Example Sentences
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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
Folks say she's a regular hair-splitter when it comes to settlements.
From Dixie Hart by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
Evidently, coroner and doctor were inclined to be testy with each other, and the newspaper report left the impression that Dr. Scaife was a hair-splitter.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis
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
"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
