Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Drawn out as fine as a hair; characterized by over-refinement or nicety: as, hair-drawn dialectics.
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Examples
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Page's contempt for the hair-drawn technicalities of lawyers was profound, and the tortuous effort to make the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty mean something quite different from what it said, inevitably moved him to righteous wrath.
The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922
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"I don't think we need to consider hair-drawn objections," I retorted.
The Shadow World Hamlin Garland 1900
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