stickling
Example Sentences
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The film, which was made largely with a $20,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, spends time showing what has been lost to Wikipedia because of stickling rules of citation and verification.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2011
After the "Schweinehund Speech," however, it was clear that Briand and Poincare are one in stickling for cash.
From Time Magazine Archive
I really think I could give you a commission without much stickling of my conscience.
From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Why, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them 'ware haunch!'
From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir
The artists fought this influence, stickling a long time for the severer classicism of ancient Greece.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles
