HAIR-SPLITTING


Meaning of HAIR-SPLITTING in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

It is this kind of hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But this is hair-splitting as an art form.

This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.

This, to those interested in the purpose of the insider-trading law, is lawyers' hair-splitting .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.