How do you use Nitpick in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like knock or criticize, plus the exact meaning.
Nitpick meaning
- To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.
- To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.
- To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair. I nitpicked his hair.
Nitpick vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Nitpick
- The main meaning on this page is: To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details. | To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair. | To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair. I nitpicked his hair.
- Useful related words include: knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart.
- Possible Dutch translations are: vlooien.
- In the example corpus, nitpick often appears in combinations such as: to nitpick, nitpick at, nitpick the.
Context around Nitpick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nitpick
- In this selection, "nitpick" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, common, inspectors, small, now and clunky stand out and add context to how "nitpick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a common nitpick with mcu and a minor nitpick on what. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nitpick" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nitpick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But let’s not nitpick now. (6 words)
Now, of course this is a nitpick. (7 words)
To disagree would be to nitpick and quibble. (8 words)
Up on the bridge, the crew hovers while the inspectors nitpick all the ways they've customized the Enterprise when Uhura () receives a distress signal from La'an who appears to be calling out from a world on the edge of Klingon space. (43 words)
Now, if you feel the need to nitpick, one could argue that Meghan doesn’t wear anything particularly groundbreaking, and her footwear needs a bit of a pick-me-up (come on, Megs, enough with the blah suede pumps! (39 words)
You really can’t change a person’s strange habits, gross tendencies, or weird idiosyncrasies no matter how much you nitpick about it; you can’t change the way you live your life for someone else either. (37 words)
That's just a tiny nitpick that won't turn me off of watching and loving it! (17 words)
Now, if you feel the need to nitpick, one could argue that Meghan doesn’t wear anything particularly groundbreaking, and her footwear needs a bit of a pick-me-up (come on, Megs, enough with the blah suede pumps! (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A common nitpick with MCU projects is that, sadly, even some of the best ones don't have soundtracks that stick with audiences.
From every angle they tried to nitpick at, the film was impenetrable.
To disagree would be to nitpick and quibble.
Up on the bridge, the crew hovers while the inspectors nitpick all the ways they've customized the Enterprise when Uhura () receives a distress signal from La'an who appears to be calling out from a world on the edge of Klingon space.
If I have to nitpick, the volume and power buttons do feel a bit flimsy, and even the pre-installed screen protector feels a bit cheap.
Small nitpick, it was a bit odd to see Kushida kick out of Wes’s Cardiac Kick finisher and see it treated as a regular move (Nothing too egregious.
That's just a tiny nitpick that won't turn me off of watching and loving it!
It does still feature the same, somewhat bulky design as its predecessor but that’s a minor nitpick on what is otherwise a powerhouse of a fitness tracker.
It’s a nitpick at best and worth noting Feiler and the rest of the line dominated in the fourth quarter when the Steelers ran 23 plays to salt the game.
Another nitpick is that some scenes add a touch of artificialness to the ambience of this movie.
But let’s not nitpick now.
Cave fans may still nitpick about how this album instrumentally stands against avant-garde classics like Kicking Against the Pricks.
Every game brought about new opportunities to nitpick clunky or strange moments for Witten.
Now, of course this is a nitpick.
You really can’t change a person’s strange habits, gross tendencies, or weird idiosyncrasies no matter how much you nitpick about it; you can’t change the way you live your life for someone else either.
As a mostly aesthetic nitpick – the class feature should specify that idolator levels count as oracle levels for the purpose of revelation prerequisites.
But off-stage, the historical inaccuracies will annoy, and true fans will nitpick at the details and the lack of focus on the other band members.
Editing and formatting on a formal level are excellent; on a rules-language level, I have a few instances where I can nitpick some details.
If you want to nitpick, the dinner had shortcomings.
Now, if you feel the need to nitpick, one could argue that Meghan doesn’t wear anything particularly groundbreaking, and her footwear needs a bit of a pick-me-up (come on, Megs, enough with the blah suede pumps!
Common combinations with nitpick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to nitpick 7×
- nitpick at 3×
- nitpick the 3×
- nitpick and 2×
- not nitpick 2×
- nitpick about 2×