persnickety

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But as the studio routines solidified and as the stripped bodies multiplied, his analyses of nakedness turned in my eyes into an increasingly persnickety internal argument, conducted in a prissy, bombastic rhetoric.

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  1. adjective Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.
  2. adjective Snobbish; pretentious.
  3. adjective Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding: a persnickety job.

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  • But here he had, for a time, escaped from his persnickety mining worms and their venal crewish growers and the multiple, other problems that made his life what it was. —  A Gift From Earth
  • But the Valley is a whole multi-city complex of persnickety eggheads, not just one single Orwellian technoplex, like Microsoft. —  Microserfs
  • The knight chided himself; he should have known better than to ask the persnickety Abel such a question. —  The Black Wing
  • But as the studio routines solidified and as the stripped bodies multiplied, his analyses of nakedness turned in my eyes into an increasingly persnickety internal argument, conducted in a prissy, bombastic rhetoric. —  The Way to All Flesh
  • "Unless, of course, you're persnickety about religion. —  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
 

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