Summary
English to French: more detail...
- hairsplitting:
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Wiktionary:
- hair-splitting → enculage de mouches
- hair-splitting → chicanerie, coupage de cheveux en quatre, pinaillage, enculage de mouches
English
Detailed Translations for hair-splitting from English to French
hairsplitting:
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the hairsplitting (acting difficult; quibbling)
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the hairsplitting (niggling; nitpicking)
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the hairsplitting (nitpicking)
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the hairsplitting (quibbling over words)
Translation Matrix for hairsplitting:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| chicane | hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking | arguing; bickering; cavilling; fault-finding; pettifoggery; quarreling; quibble; quibbling; splitting hairs; squabbling; wrangling |
| chicanerie | hairsplitting; quibbling over words | |
| ergoterie | hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking; quibbling over words | cavilling; fault-finding |
| faire le difficile | acting difficult; hairsplitting; quibbling | |
| - | word-splitting | |
| Adjective | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| - | finespun |
Synonyms for "hairsplitting":
Related Definitions for "hairsplitting":
Wiktionary Translations for hair-splitting:
hair-splitting
Cross Translation:
noun
hair-splitting
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the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent
- hair-splitting → enculage de mouches
noun
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • hair-splitting | → chicanerie; coupage de cheveux en quatre; pinaillage; enculage de mouches | ↔ Haarspalterei — übertriebene Kleinlichkeit |