nitty
Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of nitty
Example Sentences
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Before we get into the nitty gritty, had you already been a fan of “Squid Game”? Did you watch the first season?
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
They were just sort of in a, in a very nitty gritty way, trying to solve the problems that were put in front of them.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
If you love getting into the nitty gritty of your profession and talking about a subject for two hours, make a podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
Young, a veteran congressional staffer with warm relationships on both sides of the aisle, comes into the debt-limit fight armed with years of experience negotiating the nitty gritty details of federal government spending.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
He has need o' a clean pow that ca's his neighbour nitty now.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
If that were still a really strong issue, I don't think I could have gone into nittier, grittier aspects of anything underneath it.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2022
“She really gets into the nittiest nitty-gritty details, and with an understanding of how important they are to the outcomes.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
But the primary reason is much more practical: Throughout history, and still in many countries throughout the world, the left hand is reserved for the nittiest and grittiest of bathroom duties.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2021
Both books drill down into the nittiest of gritty details.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2015
On Capitol Hill, North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin denounced the experiment as "nitpicking of the nittiest kind."
From Time Magazine Archive
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