词汇 | pernickety |
释义 | pernickety adjective UKinformaldisapprovinguk /pəˈnɪk.ə.ti/ us /pɚˈnɪk.ə.t̬i/(USpersnickety) giving too much attention to small details that are not important in a way that annoys other people吹毛求疵的,爱挑剔的 Wanting everything to be right anally anally retentive choosy cover all the basesidiom dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom fuss fussbudget fussily fussiness fusspot particular pedant pedantic pedantically pedantry punctilious punctiliously punctiliousness purism purist Examples of pernicketypernickety This is not a merely pernickety point. I cannot believe that it would do any harm to issuing houses, although there might be some pernickety, technically-minded accountants who would complain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it really necessary to become so pernickety in these matters as we have become in the past forty years? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was not because we were pernickety in any sense, but because we are seriously exercised about these matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be argued that the railways should make this provision on every occasion; but people can be pernickety and difficult. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, we have had the bureaucratic nightmare of pervasive, pernickety controls over every aspect of the shape, size and quality of products. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we get to that stage we are becoming pernickety and miserable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that we are being unnecessarily pernickety on this point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This group of amendments is not at all pernickety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that possibly it is being a little pernickety, because that is known to every specialist in that particular group. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only thing that worries me is the fact that we may have been too pernickety in our reform. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is becoming constitutionally pernickety all of a sudden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be pernickety, it may be a scruple, it may be prudent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One need not be too pernickety of what is immediately relevant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that my fellow countrymen are being unusually pernickety tonight on what is relatively an unimportant matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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