nitpick
/nit-pik/US // ˈnɪtˌpɪk //
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v.无主动词 verb
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- : to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.
v.有主动词 verb
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- : to criticize by focusing on inconsequential details.
n.名词 noun
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- : a carping, petty criticism.
adj.形容词 adjective
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- : Also nit·pick·y . of, relating to, or characteristic of a person who nitpicks: a nitpick review of the miniseries.
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Examples
This process can include days, weeks, months of nitpicking over single words in titles and headers.
Of course, there’s room to nitpick on the terms of Bertans’s five-year, $80 million contract.
People can nitpick ... but we were going for something a bit more shapeless and ethereal than the usual biopic.
The identical twins who sued Zuckerberg critique and nitpick The Social Network.
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