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NITPICKING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does nitpicking mean?

• NITPICKING (adjective)
The adjective NITPICKING has 1 sense:

1. quibbling over insignificant details

Familiarity information: NITPICKING used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NITPICKING (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Quibbling over insignificant details

Synonyms:

carping; caviling; nitpicking; pettifogging; quibbling

Context examples:

caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders / her nagging and carping attack / thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking / a pettifogging lawyer's mind / had no patience with quibbling critics

Similar:

critical (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws)

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