| Hairsplitter (n.) One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. Thesaurus Entries 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 |