nit picking

nit picking
Synonyms and related words:
adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, criticism, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exception, faultfinding, fencing, flak, hairsplitting, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock, logic-chopping, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, obloquy, overcriticalness, paltering, parrying, pestering, pettifoggery, pettifogging, prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, slam, stricture, subterfuge, swipe, taking exception, tergiversation, trichoschistism

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  • nit-picking — ► NOUN informal ▪ fussy or pedantic fault finding. DERIVATIVES nit pick verb nit picker noun …   English terms dictionary

  • nit-picking — ☆ nit picking [nit′pik΄iŋ ] adj., n. 〚 NIT1 + PICK2〛 (a) paying too much attention to petty details; niggling * * * …   Universalium

  • nit-picking — ☆ nit picking [nit′pik΄iŋ ] adj., n. [ NIT1 + PICK2] (a) paying too much attention to petty details; niggling …   English World dictionary

  • nit-picking — nit .picking n [U] informal when someone argues about small unimportant details or tries to find small mistakes in something ▪ Soames was getting impatient with his daughter s constant nitpicking. >nitpicking adj >nitpicker n …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • nit-picking — n. too much minor criticism; overly particular criticism; nagging. □ I am tired of all your nit picking. D Enough nit picking! What are the major problems? …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • nit-picking — informal noun fussy or pedantic fault finding. adjective overly fussy and pedantic. Derivatives nit pick verb nit picker noun …   English new terms dictionary

  • nit-picking — noun Etymology: 1nit Date: 1956 minute and usually unjustified criticism …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • nit-picking — see nitpicking …   English dictionary

  • nit-picking — adj quibbling, carping, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hypercritical, pedantic, captious, pettifogging, cavilling …   Useful english dictionary

  • nit-pick — nitˈ pick intransitive verb • • • Main Entry: ↑nit * * * nit pick «NIHT PIHK», Informal. –v.t. to pick at (something) in a petty or niggling manner, as if removing a nit or louse; examine pedantically; search for petty faults: »To make a show of… …   Useful english dictionary

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