All you ever do is nitpick. I wish you could say something more constructive.
Source: tatoeba (269989)
Nitpick
//ˈnɪt.pɪk//
Synonyms for "nitpick" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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Related words (24)
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4 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 30 languages.
Assamese
1 entries- ধৰ verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Catalan
1 entries- filar prim verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Chinese
1 entries- 蹊蹺 /蹊跷 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 找岔子 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- 找碴 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 吹毛求疵 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- 吹求 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- 找岔子 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- 找碴 verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Danish
1 entries- fluekneppe verb (to pick nits)
Dutch
4 entries- mierenneuken verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- muggenziften verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- vitten verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- vlooien verb (to pick nits)
Finnish
4 entries- hifistellä verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- nipottaa verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- nyppiä loisia verb (to pick nits)
- saivarrella verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
French
4 entries- chercher la petite bête verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- chercher les poux verb (to pick nits)
- chicaner verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- chipoter verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
German
3 entries- herumnörgeln verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- lausen verb (to pick nits)
- pingelig sein verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Hungarian
3 entries- akadékoskodik verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- gáncsoskodik verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- kötözködik verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Indonesian
2 entries- cerewet verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- rewel verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Italian
4 entries- cavillare verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- cercare il pelo nell'uovo verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- fiscaleggiare verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- impancarsi verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Japanese
4 entries- シラミを取る verb (to pick nits)
- 咎める verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- 拘る verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- 揚げ足を取る verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Latin
1 entries- cavillor verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Macedonian
4 entries- го тупи курот verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- пошти verb (to pick nits)
- ситничари verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- тупи verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Maltese
1 entries- fettaq verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Māori
1 entries- toretore verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skjegle verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Polish
4 entries- czepiać się verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- czepić się verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- przyczepiać się verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- przyczepić się verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Portuguese
3 entries- catar piolho verb (to pick nits)
- implicar verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- procurar pelo em ovo verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Romanian
3 entries- căuta nod în papură verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- despăduchea verb (to pick nits)
- păduchea verb (to pick nits)
Russian
1 entries- придира́ться verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- biskati verb (to pick nits)
- bištati verb (to pick nits)
- cepidlačiti verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- cjepidlačiti verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Spanish
4 entries- buscar el pelo en el huevo verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- buscarle la quinta pata al gato verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- buscarle tres pies al gato verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
- cogérsela con papel de fumar verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Swedish
1 entries- kritisera småsaker verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Turkish
1 entries- dananın altında buzağı aramak verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Vietnamese
1 entries- câu chấp verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
West-Frisian
1 entries- miggesiftsje verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Yakut
1 entries- тутус verb (to correct minutiae or find fault)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Please don't nitpick just for the sake of nitpicking.
Source: tatoeba (1163472)
I'm not trying to nitpick.
Source: tatoeba (9844336)
It's amazing how Tatoeba users nitpick everything and act all high and mighty. It must be because they're all insecure.
Source: tatoeba (10687114)
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