英语词汇“hair-splitting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

hair-splitting

adjective

Characterized by or fond of small and overfine distinctions: the legal experts have a particularly hair-splitting mentality...

How can the Supreme Court possibly know what the most divisive policy is with respect to these hair-splitting distinctions.
A good example of this is the often hair-splitting legal distinctions between valid and invalid transfers.
Then they became immersed in hair-splitting debates about difficult ‘moral’ decisions but within a context where everything was justified if politically useful.

Synonyms

quibbling, fault-finding, niggling, cavilling, carping, captious, critical, criticizing, disapproving, censorious, judgemental, overcritical, hypercritical, pedantic, punctilious, pettifogging;

Scottish & Irish pass-remarkable

informal nitpicking, pernickety, picky

North American informal persnickety

archaic nice, overnice

noun [mass noun]

The action of making small and overfine distinctions; quibbling.The aim of these fine distinctions, not to say hair-splitting, is to deny the Marxist thesis that the driving forces of the war were rooted in economic and geopolitical conflicts of the major capitalist powers....

Avoid complicated issues of public policy; the people need to have their hearts lifted by statements of steely resolve, and there's little time for wonky hair-splitting.
Even the most intelligent and well-intentioned judge can create a mess by indulging in hair-splitting that, at least on its own narrow terms, may seem reasonable.

Derivatives

hair-splitter

noun ...

Human consciousness is too important to be left to the hair-splitters.
They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine.
However, don't go endlessly back and forth between suppliers in an attempt to grind out a rock-bottom price, otherwise you'll be marked down as a time waster and a hair-splitter.

单词	hair-splitting
释义	hair-splitting adjective Characterized by or fond of small and overfine distinctions: the legal experts have a particularly hair-splitting mentality... How can the Supreme Court possibly know what the most divisive policy is with respect to these hair-splitting distinctions. A good example of this is the often hair-splitting legal distinctions between valid and invalid transfers. Then they became immersed in hair-splitting debates about difficult ‘moral’ decisions but within a context where everything was justified if politically useful. Synonyms quibbling, fault-finding, niggling, cavilling, carping, captious, critical, criticizing, disapproving, censorious, judgemental, overcritical, hypercritical, pedantic, punctilious, pettifogging; Scottish & Irish pass-remarkable informal nitpicking, pernickety, picky North American informal persnickety archaic nice, overnice noun [mass noun] The action of making small and overfine distinctions; quibbling.The aim of these fine distinctions, not to say hair-splitting, is to deny the Marxist thesis that the driving forces of the war were rooted in economic and geopolitical conflicts of the major capitalist powers.... Avoid complicated issues of public policy; the people need to have their hearts lifted by statements of steely resolve, and there's little time for wonky hair-splitting. Even the most intelligent and well-intentioned judge can create a mess by indulging in hair-splitting that, at least on its own narrow terms, may seem reasonable. Derivatives hair-splitter noun ... Human consciousness is too important to be left to the hair-splitters. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. However, don't go endlessly back and forth between suppliers in an attempt to grind out a rock-bottom price, otherwise you'll be marked down as a time waster and a hair-splitter.
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