hairsplitting
 (a.)做無益的細小區別的,吹毛求疵的拘泥于細節


 Hair·split·ting a. Making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning; overly subtle. -- n. The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.
    The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading.   --Charles Sumner.

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 hairsplitting
      adj : developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun
            distinctions" [syn: finespun]
      n : making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they
          didn't take his hairsplitting seriously" [syn: word-splitting]