Hairsplitting
[n] making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
[adj] developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
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adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, contradistinction, critical, criticism, cynical, delicate, demarcati