nit picking

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "nit picking":
      adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
      bad press, bickering, boggling, captiousness, carping, cavil,
      caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, criticism, dodging,
      equivocation, evasion, exception, faultfinding, fencing, flak,
      hairsplitting, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism,
      hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, knock,
      logic-chopping, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, obloquy,
      overcriticalness, paltering, parrying, pestering, pettifoggery,
      pettifogging, prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble,
      quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, shifting, shuffling,
      sidestepping, slam, stricture, subterfuge, swipe, taking exception,
      tergiversation, trichoschistism