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
I really think I could give you a commission without much stickling of my conscience.
From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
Perhaps it is in order to compensate for our laxity of interpretation upon these points that we are so rigid in stickling for accuracy upon those which make no demand upon our comfort or convenience?
From The Fair Haven by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)
