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caviling: quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

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hypercritical collapse: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

parrying collapse

fencing collapse: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)

logic chopping collapse

captious collapse: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

cynical collapse: believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

pettifoggery collapse

overcritical collapse

dodging collapse

bad notices collapse

bad press collapse

animadversion collapse

pussyfooting collapse

carping collapse

mendacity collapse: the tendency to be untruthful

nit picking collapse

nit collapse: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing; a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

niggle collapse

obloquy collapse: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

quibbling collapse

evasive collapse: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"; avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

prevarication collapse

peevish collapse

censorious collapse: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

pestering collapse

fretful collapse: habitually complaining; "a whining child"

hedging collapse

nagging collapse

criticism collapse: a serious examination and judgment of something; "constructive criticism is always appreciated"; a written evaluation of a work of literature; disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings; "the senator received severe criticism from his opponent"

trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

niggling collapse

hairsplitting collapse: making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

flak collapse

faultfinding collapse: persistent petty and unjustified criticism

cavil collapse: raise trivial objections

chicanery collapse

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

trifling collapse

bickering collapse

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

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