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nitpicker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nitpicker has 1 sense
- nitpicker(n = noun.person) - someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms; is a kind of critic
Derived form verb nitpick1
THESAURUS
nitpicker
belittler, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder, frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, momus, mystificator, mystifier, obscurantist, palterer, perfectionist, pettifogger, picayune critic, precisian, precisianist, prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, scold, shuffler, smellfungus, stickler, tergiversator
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