finicky

How To Use finicky In A Sentence

• It was fairly simple for commercial growers to transplant cacao and coffee to new plantations, but yerba mate proved to be a finicky crop.
• In a market economy, finicky customers have the upper hand in choosing products and services.
• Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
• It's just one of those things that I'm real finicky about.
• Although one should generally refuse that food which "needlessly taxes digestion and so impairs mental activity," a young student — particularly a young condottiere such as Guidobaldo — could not be permitted to develop a finicky palate. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• Mocked for repeatedly using the term lockbox to suggest that funding for Social Security and Medicare should be untouchable, Gore was caricatured, not without reason, as a finicky policy wonk. House of Bush, House of Saud
• Strangely, I just realized I kind of need an eeeeee engagement wedding doot doot doot sort of LiveJournal icon, but I'm too finicky to delete the current 15 I'm allowed to have. Featured on Pop Candy...systems engage!
• The aesthetic common denominator was a "finish fetish" or "fetish finish," your choice borrowed from the southern California demimonde of hot rods and custom cars—i.e., the kind of slick, finicky attention to smooth perfection required when applying dozens of hand-rubbed coats of cherry-red enamel to an auto body. When the West Coast Went Pop
• I was a very finicky eater, but I have learned, over time, to appreciate many foods, even eggplant.
• Then you're not at the mercy of the weather and the finicky ocean," she concluded. WEB OF DREAMS