nit-picking

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when someone argues about small unimportant details or tries to find small mistakes in something
nitpicking
By extension, any process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder

Of all life's pleasures, I like nitpicking the best. -- Wally in Dilbert.

nitpicking
The painstaking process of removing nits -- lice eggs -- from someone's hair
nitpicking
alternative spelling of nit-picking
nitpicking
disapproval If you refer to someone's opinion as nitpicking, you disapprove of the fact that it concentrates on small and unimportant details, especially to try and find fault with something. A lot of nit-picking was going on about irrelevant things I can get down to nitpicking detail, I am pretty fussy about certain things. = quibbling
nitpicking
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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