nitpicking

• 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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