hairsplitting's Usage Examples:

colloquialism used by some to indicate extreme disputation or casuistic hairsplitting.

"In short, the Supreme Court in Flipside would have none of this hairsplitting about whether one could adequately define drug paraphernalia—not if.

This is a hairsplitting distinction.

One scholar described this type of sinology as “philological hairsplitting” preoccupied with marginal or curious aspects.

between the two tests, and warned against the dangers of "semantic hairsplitting".

the raids; The Washington Post said, "There is no time to waste on hairsplitting over [the] infringement of liberty", and The New York Times said the.

cloud the action, losing the thread of the tale "in a kind of reverent hairsplitting".

English as a colloquialism used by some to indicate extreme disputation or casuistic hairsplitting.

(usually a servant), his substitution of speech for action, and his moral hairsplitting.

To hang around killing time in pretentious conversation and hairsplitting twaddle is the mark of a man who’s lost his mind.

more clearly than before, with the argument, involving much scholarly hairsplitting and sarcasm, centred now on the arrangement of early Christian basilicas.

play The Clouds, Aristophanes criticizes the sophists as hairsplitting wordsmiths, and makes Socrates their representative.

the comic play The Clouds, Aristophanes criticizes the sophists as hairsplitting wordsmiths, and makes Socrates their representative.

Synonyms:

precise, finespun,

Antonyms:

general, indistinct, inexact, unrefined,