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hair•split•ting



Pronunciation: (hâr'split"ing), [key]
—n.
the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.

—adj.
characterized by such distinctions: the hairsplitting arguments of a political debate.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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