nitpick


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Synonyms for nitpick

to raise unnecessary or trivial objections

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Words related to nitpick

be overly critical

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But 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' is a good motto and it is hard to nitpick with The Sith Lords following the footsteps of the original that fans so loved.
IT'S been so good for so long it seems churlish to nitpick at Coronation Street.
It's an intense, graduate-level training program in which we nitpick the smallest details in an effort to make the pilots better.
On the other hand, one basher took the opportunity to nitpick Dee's post and called it an act of self-promotion.
Isn't it reassuring that, while vast companies change hands and workers face employment uncertainty, we can still rely on a local luminary to nitpick in a way calculated to get right up Kraft's nose?
Peter Alliss and Co may not be everybody's cup of tea but there are certainly many inferior commentary teams around and to nitpick on almost every slightly suspect comment that is made is childish in the extreme.
But I'm left with a vision of the world crumbling around this pair while they nitpick at labels.