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caviling collapse: 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"

pimping collapse

fault-finding collapse

piffling collapse

small time collapse

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

legalistic collapse

advertent collapse: giving attention

one horse 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

overcritical collapse

Johnny on the spot collapse

negligible collapse: so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"; not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

bad press collapse

bad notices collapse

animadversion collapse

Mickey Mouse collapse: a fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney

all ears collapse

on the ball collapse

peddling collapse

carping collapse

piddling collapse

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

inconsequent collapse: lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"

on the job collapse

tinhorn collapse

insignificant collapse: not large enough to consider or notice; not worthy of notice; of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"; signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall; not important or noteworthy

obloquy collapse: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

watchful collapse

finicky collapse

quibbling collapse

heedful collapse: taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"

observant collapse: paying close attention especially to details; quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception

sneaking collapse

pestering collapse

nagging collapse

aware collapse

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