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Use "nit-picking" in a sentence
"Since Perry has already taken some stimulus funds and then taken the credit for it, a charge of hypocrisy would be well-founded – and your criticism, merely ideological nit-picking."
"I know to many that will sound like nit-picking, but the relationship between NPR and member stations has oft been strained, and the Williams matter does so more, as evidenced by station disclaimers like this one from WBUR."
"It's probably nit-picking, but I think it's important to re-emphasize the role of the individual in criticism as a way of underscoring the idea that truths about any game/movie are legion and not singular and objective."