Words similar to hairsplitting

Example sentences for: hairsplitting

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But K's indignant objection to hairsplitting a decade ago and his indignant sympathy for it now took no account of such nice distinctions.
Angered by the media's interest in the rabbi angle, local Hasidim offered semantic rebuttals ("everybody in this community is a rabbi"), Talmudic hairsplitting (the principal culprit wasn't a real rabbi because he didn't head a synagogue), and angst (who will tell the bad news to the aged chief rabbi?)
K was working on an article--and working himself up into a fine froth--on the subject of legal "hairsplitting."