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old-fashioned
worrying too much about details that are minor or not important
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“Pettifogging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pettifogging. Accessed 29 Jul. 2021.
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