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Pernickety

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Adjective

1. pernickety, persnickety

characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details

Example Sentences:
'a persnickety job'
'a persnickety school teacher'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Pernickety

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adjective informal
1. 
excessively precise and attentive to detail; fussy
2. 
(of a task) requiring close attention; exacting

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Pernickety

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adjective
var. of
persnickety

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Pernickety

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adj.
Persnickety.

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