caviling, irrelevancies, rebarbative, pedantry, sophistries, footling, pernickety, eliding, legalistic, legalism, tendentiousness, bureaucratic, flummery, buncombe, sophistic, tautologies, sanctimonious, prate, casuistry, dilatoriness, priggishness, officiousness, terminological, moralizing, prolixity, censorious, charlatanry, censorial, obfuscating, journalese, answerability, waffly, indirectness, officialdom, bafflegab, pedantic, pithiness, dictums, punctiliousness, hortatory, sententious, picayune, circumlocutions, superfluity, grubbiness, infelicities, meretricious, fatuity, hairsplitting, fustiness, archaisms, procrustean, wrongheadedness, truckling, gallimaufry, aggrandizing, presentism, disingenuity, hectoring, speciesist, prevaricates, brownism, panjandrum, busybodies, sanctimony, incoherency, foetid, hackwork, tricksy, bureaucracies, roguery, fatuous, stultification, cravenness, peccadillos, trammelled, imposer, duplicities, fettering, nefariousness, noisome, immoderation, grandiloquence, boondoggling, bureaucrats, pettily, simpleminded, pieties, nitpicking, bureacracy, pharisaical, fiats, patronising, wordiness, gradgrind, wishfulness, churlishness, superciliousness, purblind, rapaciousness, grand inquisitor, mealymouthed, jargon, jumbo, niceties, professionalism, quibbling, wrangling, bungling, chicanery, commonplace, conservatism, formalism, gamesmanship, hacks, incompetence, jousting, juggling, legerdemain, machismo, minutiae, shifty, niggling, unimaginative, dishonest, hidebound, casuistic, casuistical, freewheeling, unintelligent, vexatious, deceitful, despicable, exacting, illiberal, reprehensible, shortsighted, captious, detestable

carping, critical