nitpicking, squabbling, haggling, bickering, carping, fussing, disagreement, wrangling, dickering, whining, griping, fretting, debating, pontificating, prattle, posturing, bitching, cavilling, sniping, bellyaching, grousing, dithering, quarrel, crowing, semantics, dissembling, hairsplitting, parsing, musing, obfuscation, bandying, grumbling, picayune, yapping, doublespeak, hashing, hyperbole, harping, parroting, waffling, blabber, bleating, gamesmanship, blather, kvetching, finessing, hullabaloo, speechifying, kerfuffle, ranting, loggerheads, moaning, skirmishing, tiff, stewing, babble, dispute, brouhaha, guessing, whinge, mattering, tinkering, pussyfooting, differences, trifles, seethe, minutia, harrumphing, yammering, scoffing, demagoguing, belittling, prevarication, infighting, papering, equivocating, naysay, hectoring, rehashing, acrimony, bloviate, fudging, circumlocution, pandering, hubbub, incongruity, foofaraw, couching, irrelevancies, politicking, ambiguity, hypocrisy, wonder, technicalities, discord, pedantry, catfight, fibbing, ado, gaucherie, editorializing, disputations, quibbles, quibble, wranglings, subterfuge, sophistry, disputation, nicety, casuistry, niceties, subtleties, arguing, juggling, legerdemain, technicality

carping, caviling, doctrinal, nitpicking, pettifogging

critical