stickling

Example Sentences

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The film, which was made largely with a $20,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, spends time showing what has been lost to Wikipedia because of stickling rules of citation and verification.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2011

After the "Schweinehund Speech," however, it was clear that Briand and Poincare are one in stickling for cash.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you don't see why, then you do not know the stickling of a Briton's sense of law and a Scotchman's conscience.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Why, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them 'ware haunch!'

From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir

Months elapsed before it was clear to him that his grievance was nothing but idle trifling which originated in his over-anxious stickling at words.

From Dame Care by Overbeck, Bertha