persnickety

Example Sentences

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She asked if it looked OK or if she was just being too persnickety.

From Seattle Times

Our California lakes receive a lot of fishing pressure, which in turn makes our trophy bass a persnickety and downright hard-to-hook quarry.

From Los Angeles Times

Their involvement speaks to Eggers’ characteristic insistence on verisimilitude, born of an obsessive, research-driven approach to filmmaking that might seem persnickety if it weren’t so passionate.

From Los Angeles Times

Taylor and Arguin are spouses who work for the CDC, and really, their persnickety details are useful — they know of what they write in terms of temperatures, baking times and mixing methods.

From Seattle Times

Branagh clearly loves this character, leaning into the famously persnickety mannerisms even as he insistently locates an emotional core beneath the immaculate white suit and whiskers.

From Los Angeles Times