nitpickingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈnɪtˌpɪk.ɪŋ/us/ˈnɪtˌpɪk.ɪŋ/informal disapprovinggiving too much attention to details that are not important, especially as a way of criticizing:
If you spent less time nitpicking, you'd get more work done.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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nitpicking
adjective ukus
a nitpicking attitude