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Hairsplitting

Hairsplitting meaning

Alternative form of hair-splitting.

Example sentences (4)

The hairsplitting this time is not so much over Obasanjo’s electoral value.

The average voter isn't interested in hairsplitting between "social democrat" and "democratic socialist".

For example, the comic playwright Aristophanes criticizes the sophists as hairsplitting wordsmiths, and makes Socrates their representative.

The term "pilpul" was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting.