hair-splitting
Example Sentences
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In his written judgement, Mr Justice Knowles said the grounds on which the panel had rejected the judge's application for relocation amounted to "semantic hair-splitting".
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024
VOA’s stance has led to some intricate hair-splitting.
From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023
And so, after all the parsing and hair-splitting, we come to the heartfelt, rough-hewn denials.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2023
“I was a hair-splitting moralist, judgmental and proud,” he admits.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022
The usual hair-splitting of great men and officialdom had been anticipated, so with considerable glee, the trifling plate changes were rushed, and the big "sixty-four" press was started to toss off 100,000 copies.'
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
