quibbling
121niggling — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, adverse criticism, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, assiduous, attentive, aware, bad notices, bad press, captious, captiousness, careful, carping, cavil,… …
122nit — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, captiousness, carping, cat flea, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chigoe, cockroach, crab, criticism, dog flea, exception, faultfinding, flak, flea,… …
123nit picking — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, criticism, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exception …
124obloquy — Synonyms and related words: abuse, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, billingsgate, calumny, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, contumely, criticism, degradation, demotion, depluming,… …
125overcritical — Synonyms and related words: captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hairsplitting, harsh, hypercritical,… …
126parrying — Synonyms and related words: bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging, logic chopping, nit picking, paltering, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting,… …
127pedantic — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big sounding, bluestocking, book fed, book learned, book loving, book minded, book read, book wise, bookish, booky, bourgeois …
128pestering — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, aggravating, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blandishment, bothering, bothersome, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling,… …
