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As nitpicking inherently requires fastidious attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, even trivial errors in detail.
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is a term, first attested in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail. A person who nitpicks is termed as a nitpicker.
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Nitpicking has been used to describe dishonest insurers and bullying employers, or even bullying family members.
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Meticulously looking for trivial errors, a term originating from removing lice eggs from hair
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The terminology originates from the common act of manually removing
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Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions: A compendium of unpleasant infections
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Meinking, Terri; Taplin, David; Vicaria, Maureen (2011).
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Nitpicking (sport)
Nitpicking (disambiguation)

Giorgio Sommer
Neapolitan
lice
nits
lice
head lice
hair


"Definition of NITPICK"
"NITPICKING | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary"
Professional learners dictionary of spoken English
ISBN
978-81-203-5225-4
"27. Infestations"
ISBN
978-0-7234-3540-2
Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions: A compendium of unpleasant infections
ISBN
978-0-19-165345-2
Fraudulent Claims and Nitpicky Insurers
Management Bullies: The Effect on Employees
ISSN
2152-1034
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