Definition of "hair-splitting" []

• The act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people. (noun)

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• "I would caution people about the hair-splitting Kurtz is doing here."
• "Yet any such hair-splitting would do irreparable damage to the ECB's credibility."
• "Romney is now hair-splitting about the difference between criminal law and "the law that applies to those fighting America"."