Definitions
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- adverb In a
picky way;pedantically .
Etymologies
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picky + -ly
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Examples
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I hang my head in abject shame that in pickily pointing out a spelling mistake in the main post I myself committed a typo.
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In northern Australia water buffaloes graze the very pickily leaves of pandanus; they also graze sedges, reeds, floating grass, and aquatic weeds.
6 Nutrition 1981
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I can't help but be so nit-pickily critical of this CD.
Brainwashed 2009
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I can't help but be so nit-pickily critical of this CD.
Brainwashed 2009
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