Crossword-Solution: HAIRSPLITTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hairsplitter | n. | One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HAIRSPLITTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| OVERLY precise person | 16 answers |
| Quibbler | 34 answers |
| Bluestocking. | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HAIRSPLITTER (3)
Jeremiah Hairsplitter, a well-known Jamaica planter, who was on his return, for good and all, to his native land.
Hairsplitter may have said goes for nothing, as it is not down in black and white, in legal phrase." So, my friends (said the narrator, with a sigh) here was an end to this fortune and to my luck, at that bout, at any rate.
They all with one accord, including even that hairsplitter in criticism, Baron Josépin,[2.14] declared that such a great artist would have been an ornament to the Academy, and expressed their sorrow at his death in the choicest phrases, although, like the crazy old man, they were praising Heaven in their hearts that he was dead.
Quotes with HAIRSPLITTER (1)
This is the man who thinks too much, who stands back from his life and never lives it. He is caught in a web of pros and cons about his decisions and lost in a labyrinth of reflective meanderings from which he cannot extricate himself. He is afraid to live, to ‘leap into battle.’ He can only sit on his rock and think. The years pass. He wonders where the time has gone. And he ends by regretting a life of sterility. He is a voyeur, an armchair adventurer. In the world of acade…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).