nitpicking in English

adjective
1
looking for small or unimportant errors or faults, especially in order to criticize unnecessarily.
a nitpicking legalistic exercise
noun
1
fussy fault-finding.
nitpicking over tiny details

Use "nitpicking" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "nitpicking" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "nitpicking", or refer to the context using the word "nitpicking" in the English Dictionary.

1. When a person is described as Captious, the sense is usually of nitpicking at faults or raising petty objections.

2. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives. (Down in Florida, my mother describes condo-association bickering as 'nitpicking in paradise.

3. Caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders / her nagging and carping attack / thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking / a pettifogging lawyer's mind / had no patience with quibbling critics Similar:

4. Why, just after nitpicking about what they thought to be a shocking infraction of the Sabbath regulation, the Pharisees took counsel against Jesus “that they might destroy him.”