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nitpick
v.
pay obsessive attention to petty flaws or details
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Nitpicking
Nitpicking is the act of removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from the host's hair. As the nits are cemented to individual hairs, they cannot be removed with most lice combs and, before modern chemical methods were invented, the only options were to shave all the host's hair or to pick them free one by one.
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nitpick
Verb
1. be overly critical; criticize minor details
(hypernym) knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
(derivation) nitpicker
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nitpick
find unfinished details or small errors Deborah can find the errors. She likes to nitpick.
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nitpick
Synonyms and related words:
around the bush, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, carp, catch at straws, cavil, choplogic, cut up, dodge, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fault-find, fence, find fault, hedge, mystify, obscure, palter, parry, pettifog, pick holes, pick nits, pick to pieces, prevaricate, pull apart, pull to pieces, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, take exception, tear apart, tear to pieces, tergiversate
around the bush, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, carp, catch at straws, cavil, choplogic, cut up, dodge, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fault-find, fence, find fault, hedge, mystify, obscure, palter, parry, pettifog, pick holes, pick nits, pick to pieces, prevaricate, pull apart, pull to pieces, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, take exception, tear apart, tear to pieces, tergiversate
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