| 词汇 | persnickety |
| 释义 | persnickety adjective USinformaldisapprovinguk /pəˈsnɪk.ə.ti/ us /pɚˈsnɪk.ə.t̬i/(UKpernickety) 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 persnicketypersnickety A hobby once dominated by persnickety elites was fully democratized. From USA TODAY The more persnickety you are, the more deviations you tend to recognize. From Slate Magazine It's just that he was always very persnickety. From OregonLive.com Is it too persnickety to ask that we curb our enthusiasm for "amazing"? From Huffington Post Curators can color-control and dim light levels in persnickety 1 percent increments. From WIRED And she's persnickety about the bacon. From NPR If you are ordering at a bar, and you are persnickety about the salt content of your sparkling water, use the term soda water at your own risk. From Slate Magazine 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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