HAIR-SPLITTING


Meaning of HAIR-SPLITTING in English

25B6; adjective PEDANTIC, pettifogging; quibbling, niggling, cavilling, carping, critical, overcritical, hypercritical; informal nit-picking, pernickety, picky; N. Amer. informal persnickety.

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