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Pernicketty, Pernickety  adj.  Finical or fussy; full of petty details. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking, persnickety, punctilious.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pernicketty" Quotes from Famous Books



... very happy time for me, in spite of many difficulties and disappointments. I can never tell the goodness of the Committee and the Belgian doctor to me, and their kindness in letting me introduce all our pernickety English ways to which they were not accustomed, won my gratitude for ever. Never were Sisters so loyal and unselfish as mine. The first part of the time they were overworked and underfed, and no word of grumbling or complaint was ever heard from them. They worked from morning till ...
— Field Hospital and Flying Column - Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia • Violetta Thurstan



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