niggling lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• be overly critical; criticize minor details
• argue over petty things "Let's not quibble over pennies"
• worry unnecessarily or excessively "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now"
• making too fine distinctions of little importance "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
• (informal) small and of little importance "a fiddling sum of money" "a footling gesture" "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war" "a little (or small) matter" "a dispute over niggling details" "limited to p..."
• quibbling over insignificant details "None" "her nagging and carping attack" "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking" "a pettifogging lawyer's mind" "had no patience with quibbling critics"