nit-picking

A nit-picking boss can be balanced by a hug from a loved one, a yummy dinner, and a good night's sleep.

The Indians had "no concept of materiality" , he says, and were mired in nit-picking.

It has been made to look like nit-picking or legalism for anyone to be concerned over what we see, hear, touch or eat.

This was a customary question. After every social occasion , Mrs. Wang, who loved nit-picking, would always correct her husband.

Sceptical Poles, scarred by their dealings with suspicious, nit-picking bureaucrats, may take some convincing of this.

And yet, in humans, nit-picking can ruin a perfectIy good evening.

On the whole it's a good dictionary; and it would be nit-picking to dwell on those small defects.

And it insisted that its work be kept secret for a long time so its nascent idea was not subject to nit-picking criticism.

You also have to have a balance and know when someone is nit-picking.

This nit-picking is sickening to your friends.

Phase one is control which is exercised through constant trivial daily nit-picking criticism etc.

'There you go again. Academic nit-picking , ' interrupted Maud.

Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there.

constant nit-picking, fault-finding and criticism of a trivial nature - the triviality, regularity and frequency betray bullying;