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Pernickety

adjective
1.
Characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details.  Synonym: persnickety.  "A persnickety school teacher"





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"Pernickety" Quotes from Famous Books



... them myself. But, man, gin ye had trod the floor of the Parliament Hoose in Edinburry as long as I did, wi' a pair o' thin hands at the bottom o' toom pockets, ye'd ha'e shed your fine notions, as I did. Noo, fine pernickety noansense will no' do ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various


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