nit picking

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nit picking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "nit picking":
     adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
     bad press, bickering, boggling, captiousness, carping, cavil,
     caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, criticism, dodging,
     equivocation, evasion, exception, faultfinding, fencing, flak,
     hairsplitting, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism,
     hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock,
     logic-chopping, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, obloquy,
     overcriticalness, paltering, parrying, pestering, pettifoggery,
     pettifogging, prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble,
     quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, shifting, shuffling,
     sidestepping, slam, stricture, subterfuge, swipe, taking exception,
     tergiversation, trichoschistism