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pernickety

WordNet
  1. (adj) pernickety
    characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details "a persnickety job","a persnickety school teacher"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Pernickety
    Finical or fussy; full of petty details.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. pernickety
    Of persons,precise in trifles; fastidious; fussily particular, especially in dress or about trifles.
  2. pernickety
    Of things, requiring minute attention or painstaking labor; characterized by petty details.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Pernickety
    per-nik′e-ti easily troubled about trifles:
  2. (adj) Pernickety
    per-nik′e-ti (coll.) fastidious
Usage in literature

We think the Magistrate was rather pernickety. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919" by Various

I remember she was most pernickety about her blacks after my father's death. "The Judge" by Rebecca West

It's a business, and a very pernickety one to boot, and it's to keep Bart away from business that we are striving. "The Garden, You, and I" by Mabel Osgood Wright

All this pernickety analysis was flooded by the overwhelming fact that Jack was coming home. "The Education of Eric Lane" by Stephen McKenna

You are as pernickety as a setting hen, as Kelly said yesterday. "Jap Herron" by Emily Grant Hutchings

You're too damn pernickety, anyway. "The Rider of Golden Bar" by William Patterson White

The Gilmer brothers were a couple of fussy and pernickety old bachelors of a rather retiring, not to say timid, disposition. "The Wolves of God" by Algernon Blackwood

He is as morose and pernickety and feckless as ever. "A Knight on Wheels" by Ian Hay

You are too pernickety. "Memoirs of a Midget" by Walter de la Mare