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Niggler

noun
1.
Someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way.  Synonym: carper.






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"Niggler" Quotes from Famous Books



... begin talking of the local sport: and do not talk humbly and tentatively as so many do, but in a loud authoritative tone. You shall insist and lay down the law and fly into a passion if you are contradicted. There is here an objection which will arise in the mind of every niggler and boggler who has in the past very properly been covered with ridicule and become the butt of the waiters and stable-yard, which is, that if one is ignorant of the local sport, there is an end to the business. The objection is ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc



Words linked to "Niggler" :   critic, niggle



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