Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety:
— The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense.

synonym: delicate.

Roget 203: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like etc. (filament) 205; finespun^†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^†; contracted etc. 195; unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^†; slender as a thread.    [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.    attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid^†, marcid^†, barebone, rawboned.    monomolecular.    ... show more

Roget 477: intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason, anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected.    unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous^†, absonant^†; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur [Lat.], it does not follow.    deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum [Lat.], evasive; irrelevant etc. 10.    weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.    irrational; nonsensical etc. (absurd) 497.    foolish etc. (imbecile) 499; frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling; finespun^†, overrefined^†.    at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.    ... show more

Developed in excessively fine detail:
— Finespun distinctions.

synonym: hairsplitting.