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18 entries under noun topic. ×
| nit-picking(adjective, pharisaical, pharisaic, overcritical) | |
| quibbling(adjective, nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) | |
| carping(adjective, nit-picking, pharisaical, pharisaic) | |
| cavilling | |
| fault-finding | |
| pettifogging | |
| quibble | |
| captiousness | |
| censure | |
| criticism | |
| equivocation | |
| evasion | |
| fussiness | |
| hypercriticism | |
| paltering | |
| pickiness | |
| sophistry | |
| splitting hairs |
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