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hairsplitting::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | word-splitting |
| Type of | differentiation, distinction |
they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously.
hairsplitting::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | finespun |
Examples of hairsplitting
hairsplitting
Yet to most voters, the lawsuit, however decided, may seem like just more hairsplitting.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Is all this fuss about board appointments just legal hairsplitting?
From the online.wsj.com
That legalistic hairsplitting and investigatory indifference has left important questions hanging.
From the kentucky.com
The immediate problem is a case study in diplomatic hairsplitting.
From the time.com
All this hairsplitting is not without its dangers, though.
From the time.com
Such hairsplitting word games do not inspire confidence.
From the kansas.com
This isn't an exercise in foreign-policy hairsplitting.
From the sacbee.com
Shank is, indeed, engaging in medieval hairsplitting.
From the scienceblogs.com
Some of this is, of course, Washington hairsplitting.
From the cnn.com
- Finespun: developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
- Making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
- Trivial objections (also referred to as hair-splitting, nothing but objections, barrage of objections and banal objections) is an informal logical fallacy where irrelevant and sometimes frivolous objections are made to divert the attention away from the topic that is being discussed. ...
- The making of unreasonably or extremely fine distinctions.
