hair-splittery en · NOUN
Etymology
From hair + split + -ery.
Meanings
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(informal, uncountable) Synonym of hair-splitting.
[T]hat is the final reason we have all more or less moved on from Ginni and the is-it-a-coup-or-an-insurrection hair-splittery[.]
2022 April 6, Dahlia Lithwick, “Why the Clarence and Ginni Thomas Scandal Vanished From the News”, in Slate: