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persnickety
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Persnickety
(gcide) | Persnickety \Per*snick"et*y\, a.
1. Finicky or fussy; demanding excessive attention to petty
details or niceties; unduly particular; fastidious; -- of
people. [Colloq.]
Syn: finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking,
pernickety, pernicketty, punctilious.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
2. Snobbish; behaving aloofly. [Colloq.]
Syn: pernickety, pernicketty. [PJC] |
persnickety
(wn) | persnickety
adj 1: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a
snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le
Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and
persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty,
snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, {too big for one's
breeches}, uppish]
2: characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial
details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
[syn: pernickety, persnickety] |
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