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)
When I recall his last look, resigned and yet smiling in his misery, that look said: 'Innstetten, this is stickling for principle.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
At last the Senate sent to make terms with Cinna; but while they were stickling about acknowledging his title of consul, he advanced to the gates.
From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.
