hair-splitter

Example Sentences

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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

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

"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

Lion bearder, hair-splitter, cutter-of-his-own-throat, lover of a country lass.

From The Mighty Dead by Gault, William Campbell

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