ADJECTIVE
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(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
a snotty little scion of a degenerate family
they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety -
characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
a persnickety job
a persnickety school teacher
How To Use persnickety In A Sentence
- You are the first person to use the word persnickety that I have ever encountered – Way To GO! good word One way to fill blogspace on a pre-long weekend Friday – Liveblogging a PMO background briefing - Inside the Queensway - Macleans.ca
- Call me persnickety, but to my queer eye the “real sapele pommele wood” on the dash and steering wheel looked about as authentic as the “real tortoiseshell” frames of the last pair of sunglasses I bought in Chinatown. Behind the Wheel: Cadillac CTS : Brett Berk
- I offer some 'persnickety' counsel; Sarah, thou must discover olde America's Christian Talibanists in more than books. Air America: "Sarah Vowell, 'social observer', not!"
- 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
- Yesterday's, incidentally, introduced me to the wonderful word persnickety.
- Call me persnickety, but to my queer eye the “real sapele pommele wood” on the dash and steering wheel looked about as authentic as the “real tortoiseshell” frames of the last pair of sunglasses I bought in Chinatown. Behind the Wheel: Cadillac CTS : Brett Berk
- This was when he was a struggling actor -- before he played Niles Crane, the persnickety younger brother with the unseen anorectic wife on Frasier, one of the two best TV comedy series ever. Susan Braudy: David Hyde Pierce Slept Here
- We sat in the back of her persnickety 1966 Ford Falcon for a few hours.
- There are no words to describe the feeling of becoming a new father for the first time, so I will just use the word "persnickety". Unclebob Diary Entry
- they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety