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Examples
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They're sort of pernicketty cattle to manage; I'd sooner take to horses; and if one happens to die, you don't feel so cut up like as if it was a wife.
Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter
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Irish lady, with twinkling eyes and a pernicketty strong will, and a brogue she transferred deliciously into her broken French.
A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Well, there's more out there to choose from, and I am also way less pernicketty than he is.
British Blogs 2009
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"It's a little difficult to define, but I certainly don't mean pernicketty.
Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905
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"It's a little difficult to define, but I certainly don't mean pernicketty.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905
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