nitpicked; nitpicking; nitpicks
: to engage in nit-picking
: to criticize by nit-picking
… warns her lawyers not to nitpick on relatively simple matters.—
Deborah L. Jacobs
Deborah L. JacobsExamples of nitpick in a Sentence
her husband nitpicks about everything: from how she puts the plates away to how she files the bills
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Ron Fong, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
This is pretty much your standard-issue focus-group scene, with dopey viewers idiotically nitpicking irrelevant details.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 2 May 2025
After 40-Yard Dash Time Sanders had a good showing overall at the pro day, but as with his entire career, people have been nitpicking it.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
Apple is not legally required to re-admit Fortnite, but the questions now are whether Apple is going to nitpick some specific thing to deny the app that caused all this, or whether Fortnite has somehow pushed the bounds of the results of the case to twist the knife even further.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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“Nitpick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nitpick. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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nitpick
verb
nit·pick
ˈnit-ˌpik 
: to criticize for tiny faults that are usually of little importance
nitpicker
noun
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