[ UK /pˈɜːnɪkɪti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
    a persnickety job
    a persnickety school teacher
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How To Use pernickety In A Sentence

  • I think you'd have to be really pernickety to value any of the tweaks this program offers. just_laze Xdn Tweaker Updates To Tweak Windows 7 | Lifehacker Australia
  • But some, especially one of the floor managers, got all narky and pernickety about the tiniest stuff.
  • If some creatures can tolerate lower pHs and others cannot, you might expect things to average out: the tolerant and adaptable prosper, the more pernickety perish.
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  • But the United States Golf Association is pernickety about these things, so here are the bare facts. Rory McIlroy hits heights and leads by six in US Open at Congressional
  • This is partly due to the demands of an increasingly pernickety international audience ‘who get easily bored.’
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  • Needless to say, there were a few of my pernickety readers who were quick to point out the folly of my ways.
  • Personally, I could care less about persnickety or "pernickety" if you're Scottish, fruitless articles that discuss TV ratings or predictable comparisons to tired shows. LOSTCasts 53: Catch-22
  • As a writer, he is extremely pernickety about using words correctly.
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