hair-splitting

Word family adjectivehairedhairlesshairlikehairyhair-raisingnounhairinesshairlessnesshairbandhairbrushhairclothhaircuthairdohairdresserhairdressinghairdryerhairlinehairnethairpiecehairpinhair shirthair slidehair-splittinghairsprayhairspringhairstreakhairstylehairstylisthair triggerhairwormhair

ˈhair-splitting noun [uncountableU]

CHOOSEwhen people pay too much attention to small differences and unimportant details, especially in an argument 〔尤指在争论中的〕过分纠缠于细枝末节，吹毛求疵

→ split hairs at split1(8)

Examples from the Corpus

hair-splitting• This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.• But this is hair-splitting as an art form.• This, to those interested in the purpose of the insider-trading law, is lawyers' hair-splitting.• It is this kind of hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.

词汇	hair-splitting
释义	hair-splitting Word family adjectivehairedhairlesshairlikehairyhair-raisingnounhairinesshairlessnesshairbandhairbrushhairclothhaircuthairdohairdresserhairdressinghairdryerhairlinehairnethairpiecehairpinhair shirthair slidehair-splittinghairsprayhairspringhairstreakhairstylehairstylisthair triggerhairwormhair ˈhair-splitting noun [uncountableU] CHOOSEwhen people pay too much attention to small differences and unimportant details, especially in an argument 〔尤指在争论中的〕过分纠缠于细枝末节，吹毛求疵 → split hairs at split1(8) Examples from the Corpus hair-splitting• This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.• But this is hair-splitting as an art form.• This, to those interested in the purpose of the insider-trading law, is lawyers' hair-splitting.• It is this kind of hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.
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