persnickety

• 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

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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