hair-splitter
Example Sentences
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His judges considered him as an unreasonable man, a gifted sophist fertile in inventing objections in and out of season, a hair-splitter perpetually arguing for argument's sake.
From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Folks say she's a regular hair-splitter when it comes to settlements.
From Dixie Hart by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
So severely dialectical was he that he seemed to be a hair-splitter.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord
He isn't going to be the dead easy mark I hoped to find in the son of the old bankrupt hair-splitter, Genie, girl.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
"You are the hair-splitter this time," said he, ruefully.
From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by John Kendrick Bangs
