nitpicked; nitpicking; nitpicks
Definition of nitpick
: to engage in nit-picking
: to criticize by nit-picking
… warns her lawyers not to nitpick on relatively simple matters.— Deborah L. Jacobs
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The first known use of nitpick was in 1956
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