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hair-splitting

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Definition of hair-splitting

adjective

  • characterized by or fond of small and overfine distinctions:the legal experts have a particularly hair-splitting mentality

noun

[mass noun]
  • the action of making small and overfine distinctions; quibbling.

Derivatives

hair-splitter

noun

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