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nitpicking

adjective as in niggling about details

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Example Sentences

The department of health needs to stop nitpicking, dragging their feet, and get these other centers open.

Or find a nitpicking way to avoid making any decision until some more states have acted on their own?

Three months ago, what was on display was the well-developed British talent for carping, sneering, and nitpicking.

But these narrow grounds still did not fall to the level of legal nitpicking.

In any case, this is nitpicking, and, ironically, Klingman does the same thing in his essay.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nitpicking, such as: captious, and hairsplitting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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