How To Use Picky In A Sentence
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If you don't know my husband I should mention here that he's what you'd probably call a picky eater.
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I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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Of course, it would be open to ultra-picky fault-finding customers or even malicious postings.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the writers in my fandom are definitely interested in craft matters, almost all of them are much more picky about the feedback I give them than my mentees are.
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Picky Penny proceeded to order the chipotle chicken wrap with no onions, no peppers, light on the shredded spinach, cheddar instead of pepper jack, and the chipolte dressing on the side.
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To get the downsides out of the way first, our test sample was very picky with the hard drives we used.
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And it was in France, dear reader, that I learned to swallow the bitter pill best known as endive-not a life lesson, perhaps, in the strict sense of the term, but a promising turn for a palate. picky than pleasant at the dinner table.
Orangette
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Women enjoy the attentiveness of Shanghai men but can't stand their being fussy and ‘picky’.
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This is probably the most meat-centred restaurant in London and not advised for your picky vegan friends, but perfect for a Sunday.
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Once they have been out at sea for a while and it is time to head inland, they are decidedly picky about a river's condition.
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Ideally there will be lyrics about their ratty bathrobes at some point, but I'm not picky, cause hey, I'm all about the glitz.
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Let's not get too picky, though.
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But this is probably a nit-picky objection.
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That is reading widely, not being picky and choosy about what you read.
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And all because the #2 kid loves to get picky pecky and agitate the other kids.
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Maybe she's picky about her hi-fi sound.
The Sun
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Maybe she's picky about her hi-fi sound.
The Sun
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The picky little details are the individual brush strokes in our stewardship painting.
Christianity Today
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Perhaps I'm being overly picky but I think it would have been cool to have seen some deleted scenes or out-takes on this or any of the other films in the box set.
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And the New Zealand spinach entry doesn't give its Maori name (puha) and there are lots of spelling mistakes in that entry (I know, I'm picky!)
The Food Timeline :: Rebecca Blood
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It's also highly adaptable, which is nice for picky eaters.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Furthermore, not to be picky, but for a book that complains about poor vocabulary skills among digital readers and writers, I couldn't help but notice that on page sixteen he seems to misuse the word "querulous" in place of what sounds like he intended to be a synonym for "inquisitive.
Virtualpolitik
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I'm just giving my honest opinion on this which I think isn't very nitpicky at all, but something along the lines of 'wow that's how they kill the great captain kirk, huh' So put the gun down.
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The fish were not picky with bread, luncheon meat, cat meat, worms, casters, pellets and maggots offered in various ways.
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Some people are very picky about who they choose to share their lives with.
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Mats and blankets moldered in heaps in a corner and people seemed picky about which they selected.
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He probably thought the auditors were pettifogging about practices ‘everyone does’ and that different auditors wouldn't be so picky.
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Do you think that uncovered plugs and switches pose a hazard, or is that being too picky?
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Now if you are a charity or a non-profit organisation of some kind, you have to be picky about the people you take your money from.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's very picky as far as adjustment goes.
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Picky people pick Peter Pan peanut - butter.
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Those who are picky about sound or video quality might find this a hard pill to swallow, but there's nothing for it.
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One problem nitpicky, perhaps that I have is that here on the comments page, I'm used to "tabbing" from the Word Verification box to the User Name box to the password box and that no longer works - or at least it doesn't seem to work for me.
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Those infernal machines are really picky about some brands of fancy lad beer I like that come in bottles, especially Sierra Nevada IPA.
For bottle return mess, a new idea (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Are you being a bit picky, Brad?
The Sun
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Not to get picky, here, but I'm curious why it was mentioned that Joachim is of Sri Lankan descent.
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If you start with a book like this one, chances are you won't need that picky eater chapter at all.
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That's ten fewer things for your GP to get picky about.
The Sun
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In short, they're picky eaters, and their appetites are capricious and unpredictable.
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If you are very picky, you will want to remove the chalaza.
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And being picky over food is not due to bad parenting.
The Sun
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When men cook, they sure are picky about what ingredient they use.
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We prefer to go away unhappy rather than be branded as difficult and picky.
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That said, sometimes it'd be nice to be a bit picky.
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The picky little details are the individual brush strokes in our stewardship painting.
Christianity Today
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Oh! Last night I was labelled a picky eater by someone outside the family which I thought was just rude as shit.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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Corked off from reality by your earbuds and with the potential to carry a record store's worth of music, it's no surprise that you start getting less picky.
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Also, I am one of those picky people who does notice the difference between CD-quality sound and MP3 compression.
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And more so for older people, because we have had such an infinite number of experiences by now and are so picky, entrenched and laden with baggage.
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Unlike most heavyweights, is a picky eater, no spicy foods.
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I think getting read by other authors is the ultimate compliment, because we tend to be more picky.
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Brokers also say that lenders are increasingly picky about whom they will accept for a landlord loan.
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Maybe I was too old, too grumpy, too picky, too frigid?
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The picky little details are the individual brush strokes in our stewardship painting.
Christianity Today
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Brokers also say that lenders are increasingly picky about whom they will accept for a landlord loan.
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Picky eaters, calorie counters, carb avoiders - whatever you want to call them, it all spells uptight and unsexy as far as we're concerned.
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I would never have thought we orthodox Jews would arrive at a stage where our young men of marriageability have become so one-dimensional that their superficiality and pickyness would begin to literally kill our young women.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anorexia and The New Values of Courtship
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The part that's the most picky is the roasting and peeling of the chiles and the walnuts, but it's worth the trouble!
�VIVA MEXICO!~Independence Day and Its Special Food
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If you're picky about where you sit, pay your way to the front of the queue.
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But we won't get picky on such a bright day.
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There are so many rules about proper table manners that it would take forever to list every nitpicky item.
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Rumors have been floating around for years that he was not particularly picky when it came to bed partners.
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I have my 6-week-postnatal appointment in a week 9 weeks postnatally, but there you go, this stuff was much easier to arrange when I didn't have a toddler and wasn't as picky about doctors so will bring everything up then.
Summation
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I detected a small aftertaste from the pudding but that's just me being picky.
Archive 2006-05-01
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Adults are fussy and picky; adults only want to deal in logic and real life.
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Given society's obsession with image, it is hardly surprising that we're a little picky when it comes to grocery shopping.
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The'not as young as we were' brigade are getting picky.
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Perhaps I'm being overly picky but I think it would have been cool to have seen some deleted scenes or out-takes on this or any of the other films in the box set.
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While RichCopy specialises in granular control over things like file names and attributes, CopyHandler allows you to get as picky as setting custom buffer sizes based on whether a file is being copied to the same physical disk, disk to disk, disk to optical drive, and so forth.
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The picky little details are the individual brush strokes in our stewardship painting.
Christianity Today
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While one of our Golden's will eat anything, the other is extraordinarily picky, that is unless I drop a little
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He also recalls the challenges of trying to please a picky female client who owned four airplanes and several boats.
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When it comes to cereals, rather than writing them off as all bad, just get picky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brokers also say that lenders are increasingly picky about whom they will accept for a landlord loan.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a freestyle, picky meal, I like a large platter of hot asparagus, scorched on the griddle pan or under the grill.
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I'm going to get more picky as the campaign goes on.
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The only 2 Indian spice blends in my spice drawer, both made by me, are the panch phoron, which has a pretty strict ratio (equal amounts of fenugreek, cumin, nigella, black mustard seeds, and fennel seeds, if I remember right off the top of my head) and my garam masala, which I use when the recipe does not seem picky about a particular region's garam masala.
Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
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I liked the odometer giving distance to the hundredths in case you really want to get picky about your mileage!
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The only 2 Indian spice blends in my spice drawer, both made by me, are the panch phoron, which has a pretty strict ratio (equal amounts of fenugreek, cumin, nigella, black mustard seeds, and fennel seeds, if I remember right off the top of my head) and my garam masala, which I use when the recipe does not seem picky about a particular region's garam masala.
Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
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I've been afforded the luxury of being able to be a bit more picky.
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We need to reach the hiring manager directly, andwe need to open anon-amoeba-type conversation withhim or her by composing a Pain Letter and a resume that speakto the hiring manager's business needs, rather than to the endless list of nitpicky job-ad qualifications.
Liz Ryan: Skirting the Resume Black Hole
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I'm lucky enough these days that I have nothing but time (and a very large pantry!) on my hands and so eschew baking mixes (unless baking for my extremely picky sister, which is another story entirely), but given the relative success of the other product I went into the kitchen open-minded.
Archive 2009-07-01
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They're not picky about whether you plant them shelled or unshelled, as long as you don't damage the skin surrounding the nut.
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They have a somewhat "flaked" appearance, so don't serve them to company or picky eaters.
Week 2 - Friday - How to cook beans - 3 time-saving techniques :: Rebecca Blood
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HARRIET WOROBEY, a childhood nutrition instructor, knows firsthand that children can be picky eaters, but even she was surprised by a preschooler last year who ate a mostly chocolate diet.
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I'm a very picky consumer, and if I'm going to hand over my hard earned money for a piece of merchandise, I make sure it's of the highest quality and caliber.
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You could get right on top of those cutties but they were very, very picky.
Orvis's Tom Rosenbauer on Small Stream Fishing: Listen to the Locals!
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More nitpicky yet, the cartons should not be photographed or filmed, sealed though they may be.
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This was too big a moment to be getting all picky about lines of descent.
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So we can get picky.
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So picky are this couple that he fumes to the camera and finds refuge in tagging along with Kirstie.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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The picky little details are the individual brush strokes in our stewardship painting.
Christianity Today
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Now experts say they are getting more picky.
Times, Sunday Times
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We talked so far on this call just about a couple of the regions where you may have seen some softening and certainly not to be nitpicky but U.S. comps while very strong, two-year trend kind of decelerated here.
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The Encore is hard to beat, and that's coming from someone who is frugal, picky, lefthanded, and already owns a Ruger #1 .... that I love a heck of a lot.
Im in the market for a quality single-shot that does not cost a fortune (sadly that rules out the ruger #1, would love to have o
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You either embrace it or you get picky,' he says of the production that has its premiere tomorrow.
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And more so for older people, because we have had such an infinite number of experiences by now and are so picky, entrenched and laden with baggage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Picky people pick Peter Pan peanut - butter.
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I'm arguably being somewhat picky, as the phone has many good points.
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But my youngest is a picky reader, in much the same way that he's a picky eater, and he had lost most of his interest in recreational reading until we gave him Jim's books a couple months ago.
The Finlay Stamp of Approval
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I'm a very picky consumer, and if I'm going to hand over my hard earned money for a piece of merchandise, I make sure it's of the highest quality and caliber.
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Also, lenders are increasingly picky about who they give their best deals to.
The Sun
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Not sure whether VDH cares to have nitpicky editorial / typo issues brought to his attention or not, but just in case, perhaps he in the first sentence means "abetted" rather than
Works and Days
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Nicholas tends to be a little picky about meat ... some days he can outeat me when The Husband makes steak.
Sweetnicks- Food & Life - It's All at Sweetnicks
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-- We all have foods we dislike, and some of us might be termed picky eaters, but when we have to deal with a youngster who refuses to eat the food we prepare -- the experience can be frustrating, acknowledges an expert in Penn State's College of
Penn State Live
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As you are eating less, your body may be a bit more picky or seek out new foods to ensure it gets all the nutrition it requires.
The Sun
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We are living through a very picky parenting moment, one when parents are expected to obsess about every moment they spend with their child, making these as healthy, huggy, meaningful and many as possible.
Custody Goes To The Craziest Parent
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Big companies can afford to be picky about who they hire.
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Portrait and picky LCD people, BE WARNED!
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He was finally even cashiered out of Graywolf for shooting a surrendering hadji on CNN, a bad career move if ever there was one; now he had another client, less picky about certain moral distinctions.
Dead Zero
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Later on, after the solstitial pause for refleshmeant, the same man (or a different and younger him of the same ham) asked in the vermicular with a very oggly chew-chin-grin: Was six vic-tolios fifteen pigeon takee offa you, tell he me, stlongfella, by picky-pocky ten to foul months behindaside?
Finnegans Wake
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I had the Red Velvet and the BEST iced mochachino I have EVER had and I am VERY picky watchout Starbucks!
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Residential nursing homes are increasingly picky about who they will accept.
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When buyers began getting picky about the fancy goods they paid for, what were they getting picky about?
The Times Literary Supplement
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E, on the other hand, as the previous anecdote hints, is not such a great eater we don’t use the word picky only because we don’t believe in it.
Opposite Eaters
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Big companies can afford to be picky about who they hire.
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Unfortunately, the only people who will appreciate this are nitpicky reviewers and geeky computer users.
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But otherwise they get picky.
Christianity Today
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The picky little details are the individual brush strokes in our stewardship painting.
Christianity Today
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He does get a bit picky in his expectations for this small time townlet, but at least he doesn't go into raptures of delight over a greasy burger or a steak house passing top sirloin off as filet mignon.
An Amusing Story
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No, I'm saying that I'm not really picky about how ‘realistic’ special effects look.
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Off the top of my head, I can think of several wonderful accounts of the Tchaikovsky, but when I get to Beethoven, I become rather picky.
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I didn't understand what had to be clean-my feet felt fine and I couldn't smell anything to suggest dirtiness, but I suppose the Lady is very picky and wanted the stalls to be super clean.
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So picky are this couple that he fumes to the camera and finds refuge in tagging along with Kirstie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Adults are fussy and picky; adults only want to deal in logic and real life.
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Although not picky eaters their were particular favorites on the porcine scavengers’ menu: nuts, fruit, shellfish, Indian corn and tuckahoes, the wild tubers gathered by Pocahontas's people to get through famines.
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He's a self-taught chef who has managed to wow both regular foodies and picky critics with his unusual dishes.
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We are being very picky with estate agents' details - very picky indeed.
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I'm horrible to work with; I'm so fussy and picky.
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There comes a time when it pays to be less picky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Um, is it possible that a betta could be a picky eater?
Pounding The Rock
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Am I being too picky to wonder why, in one sequence, a woman can embody a male, complete with prosthetics and a suit, while in another sequence she chooses a thin, fake beard and glasses to pull off the same effect?
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Call me picky, but these days I'm not sure that's enough.
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But if you're picky about image quality, it's worth tuning the settings to find the finest settings for each picture you save.
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My picky eater son isn't much into trying new things.
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Alongside this comes uniformity, which makes a more acceptable product for the absurdly picky supermarket buyer.
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You can have it your way [Verse 1:] Welcome, can I help you Take a minute to read the menu If you're looking for a man If you're looking for a friend If you're looking for someone to talk to Take your time bout taking your order I can appetize ya or main course ya (caution, caution) Cause the plate is hot (hot) [Pre-Chorus:] I'm the catch of the day (ay ay ay ay ay) Your dessert, your meal, your drink (ay ay ay ay ay) You can find it all in me I'll fill you up for free If your heart is hungry You can place your order here with me [Chorus:] Let me serve you up Lemme lemme serve you up See you can have it your way You're the costumer If you want me supersized with some loving on the side Just ask for what you want cause your the costumer Lemme lemme serve you up Lemme lemme serve you up See you can have it your way You're the costumer You can have me supersized with some lovin on the side Just ask for what you want cause you're the one, you're the costumer [Verse 2:] If you got special needs Picky, you're hard to please You're particular bout what you like You're the costumer, it's always right Satisfaction is gauranteed Head to toe girl I'm quality See the window's full of me I got a real love policy
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In fact, unquote should really be end quote: unquote is a relic of telegraphese - but let's not get too picky.
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But this is probably a nit-picky objection.
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Another said:'We have drinkers who are really picky about ice.
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I could be called picky, but when I spend a lot of money on an appliance, I expect it to work for a long time ... like maybe a week or two before the ice maker goes kablooey, or the washer stops going through the spin cycle, or a cup put in the wrong place on the upper dishwasher rack makes the upper washer arm work under noisy protest.
When Appliances Attack or Why I Kicked the Dishwasher
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Since I like the visual of the foam and I'm picky enough about the process to begin with I'll let you decide if you'd like to include this in your egg cream choregraphy.
Five Things (Well a Lot More Than Five) That You Probably Don't Know About Me Plus My Egg Cream Recipe
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The uncertain economy is making employers increasingly picky, economists and job seekers report.
This Week: Mortgage Mess, Chilean Glory, Ask and Tell
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The child may be a very picky eater; for example, refusing anything but peanut butter sandwiches and macaroni.
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That said, sometimes it'd be nice to be a bit picky.
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This is being very picky, but at £30 a bottle you need to be.
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I'd shopped and I wrapped all my gifts full of love for our five picky teens, the black Lab and the guv.
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I won't steal another child's food to feed my own-but there is always some way not too sickeningly fake to garner valuta if a man isn't too picky-which I never was whenever I had family obligations. \par
Time Enough For Love
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Buyers were getting very picky because of the leaky homes saga - as wise developers we had met the public concerns by shifting to materials that were leakproof and resistant (eg treated timber), before it became mandatory.
