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

It was certainly ridiculous for man who had once so selfishly consulted his own interests to be stickling now about the rights of others.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean

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

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