Crossword-Solution: HAIRSPLITTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hairsplitting | a. | Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. |
| Hairsplitting | n. | The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “HAIRSPLITTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dwelling on nuances | 1 answer |
| the making of trifling distinctions | 1 answer |
| special pleading | 1 answer |
| making too fine distinctions of little importance | 1 answer |
| Overly picky | 1 answer |
| Making trivial distinctions | 1 answer |
| Making distinctions of little importance | 1 answer |
| Like a nitpicker | 1 answer |
| Making petty distinctions | 2 answers |
| Over-precise | 3 answers |
| DEBATING point | 7 answers |
| AFFECTIVE logic | 7 answers |
| Quibbling | 9 answers |
| sophistry | 24 answers |
| Quibble | 50 answers |
| rationalization | 50 answers |
| Rationalisation | 60 answers |
| Reasoning | 70 answers |
| Discrimination | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HAIRSPLITTING (5)
But, he said, with a hairsplitting casuistry he would have indignantly condemned in others, the law provided two ways of obeying, "one to obey actively, and if his conscience forbad that, then to obey passively; to lie down and suffer whatever they might do to him." The Clerk of the Peace saw that it was no use to prolong the argument any further.
Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean," meant according to the American reading a watershed which was a marshy plateau, and according to the British version a range of hills to the south which involved some keen hairsplitting as to the rivers they divided.
Pardon me this hairsplitting.- As to the "Beatitudes" I entirely approve of your not having exhibited them a second time.
The result is equally unfortunate, whether due to hairsplitting technicalities in the interpretation of law by judges, to sentimentality and class consciousness on the part of juries, or to hysteria and sensationalism in the daily press.
Debates of this kind set the entire populace by the ears, and at post-office, tavern, grocery, family table, and even after the disputants had gone to bed, reasons nice, and subtleties hairsplitting were passed back and forth, until finally the party getting worsted fell back on maternal pedigrees, and epithet took the place of logic.
Quotes with HAIRSPLITTING (1)
At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless hairsplitting disputes, centered around this word and its close companion 'terror', as to which' stories may so be categorized and which may not, and whether or not descriptions such as weird or fantasy or macabre are preferable. The designation 'horror', with its connotations of revulsion, satisfies me no more than it does the purists but I beli…
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Appears in: Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1999–2019).