Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Persnickety.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of persons,precise in trifles; fastidious; fussily particular, especially in dress or about trifles.
- Of things, requiring minute attention or painstaking labor; characterized by petty details.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Finical or fussy; full of petty details.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chiefly UK
Fussy ; payingundue attention tominor details ;fastidious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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She poked fun at Wimbledon in her Twitter account by questioning the 'pernickety' attitude supposedly introduced this year.
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But the United States Golf Association is pernickety about these things, so here are the bare facts.
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This is general Euro-pernickety policy, people, not HumanRights Fail, although perish the thought that I should stand in the way of a good lynching.
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I think you'd have to be really pernickety to value any of the tweaks this program offers. just_laze
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I've been lazily chucking in ordinary butter up until now, but I give the clarified stuff a try, and even strain it in, in obedience to Michel Roux Jr's particularly pernickety method.
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The ferocity and full-throatedness of Thom Southerland's pent-in, close-up, unfussy production, in which everyone is true and Alastair Brookshaw as the pernickety desolate victim is outstanding, means that the small Southwark Playhouse, which earlier this year had a runaway hit with the dynamic Tender Napalm, has now hosted one of the musical events of the year.
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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 2011
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And they adjust alarmingly quickly to life improvements: one minute, you're happy to have made it from youth hostel to hotel; the next, you're getting pernickety about the thread count of the sheets.
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Also, I think gamers can be a rather stubborn, pernickety bunch, but if a game is good then I believe it will find a place within the heart of even the most ardent traditionalist.
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oroboros commented on the word pernickety
Add an "S" and you've only circumnavigated back to the same place! See persnickety.
August 16, 2007