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Criticizing, nagging, and nitpicking are all forms of this, as well as just complaining about everything all the time.— BeanRocket Blog Communities Lastest Posts
While we're nitpicking, the "personally" in "Personally, I'm self-employed" was completely unnecessary and redundant.— Center for American Progress Action Fund
Complaining that the minority Children in the opening ceremony were not minorities is nitpicking, although it does indicate a certain lack of taste on the part of the organisers.— The Peking Duck
Carol worried that Andrea's decision to leave the shells on her dish would bite them in the ass, and for once her Andrea nitpicking was spot-on.— Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
Quite frankly, I'd concede this to be an entertaining example of nitpicking were there not so many examples already in evidence of the Larger Than Life, near-religious persona assigned to (and willingly accepted by) President Obama by his devoted followers.— RedState

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