nitpicking

Example Sentences

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Some pretended to be difficult customers to allow the waitstaff to rehearse for future nitpicking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

This is really important, because in some sense it might sound as if we’re just nitpicking numbers.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2025

After the meeting, Grippo allegedly began “scrutinizing the marketing team and nitpicking their performance,” using the resort’s security cameras to see what time they arrived to work and when they left.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

We're always nitpicking and virtue signaling a bit.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2024

He didn’t actually have anything to gain from another treaty with Stalin, and he was annoyed with the nitpicking negotiation.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein