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Thesaurus: hairsplitter
One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
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- n. One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
- n. a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions
- One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
- One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions inreasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
- n. a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions