How To Use Finicky In A Sentence
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It was fairly simple for commercial growers to transplant cacao and coffee to new plantations, but yerba mate proved to be a finicky crop.
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In a market economy, finicky customers have the upper hand in choosing products and services.
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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
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It's just one of those things that I'm real finicky about.
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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I was a very finicky eater, but I have learned, over time, to appreciate many foods, even eggplant.
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Then you're not at the mercy of the weather and the finicky ocean," she concluded.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Poinsettias, for example, are known as finicky plants that crave dark more than light, and which will die without that proper care.
Greeley Tribune - Top Stories
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It is an arena in which far too much time is being spent attending to finicky details within details.
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And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
Underworld
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Eat up your fish and don't be so finicky.
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I'll just take the rest of that for my finicky friend here and relieve you of the burden of eating it.
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I had spent most of my life convinced that she was no different than the finicky gods of Greek and Roman mythology and other ancient mythologies.
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But getting the figures and tables right, looking up all the data and resolving all the discrepancies - it's all finicky detail work.
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More frustration is derived from some levels that require finicky control.
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She was prim, proper, and she was terribly finicky.
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This youngster, Merriwell, who is promoting the scheme, is altogether too finicky about the manner in which the deal shall be financiered.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win
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I am extremely finicky about my household chores, I would possibly leave only one item for my maid to go and fetch from the market.
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A tube can be rigged to reach bass in gnarly cover, to pick off cruisers in open water, or to coax strikes from even the most finicky bedding bass.
How to Catch Spawning Bass with Tube Lures
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And also, though I am house-proud and finicky, I also know when and how to delegate.
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The lobster requires dextrous handling, she has a finicky side salad, so neither of them has very much reason to speak.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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He's terribly finicky about his food.
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Sometimes that kind of finicky analysis can indeed ruin the magic, but it can also improve one's appreciation of a truly great work.
Casablanca
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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
The Certain Hour
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He'll have to offer higher levels of service than he's used to, catering to finicky women who often demand multiple alterations.
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In South Korea, it failed to satisfy the tastes of finicky local consumers.
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I wonder too whether some of the finicky, micro-reforms in the past two Budgets have been so super-sophisticated that poorer voters simply haven't noticed them.
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Mountain bike tires can be notoriously finicky to seat onto a rim and often require compressed air or a high-volume pump to create the critical airtight seal.
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Because the particles block direct sunlight more than diffuse rays, they also alter the balance of radiation reaching Earth's surface, with unknown consequences for plants that can be kind of finicky about the kind of sunlight they need.
The ‘Geo-Engineering’ Scenario
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He was so finicky about it and always kept it in perfect place.
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But they were well-mannered, loitering beneath the feeders, waiting for whatever sunflower seeds the finicky nuthatches and—does anyone happen to know whether titmice is the plural of titmouse—happened to toss aside in their search for the perfect seed.
Backyard Warfare
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Bras are finicky, and, in my experience, require fittings.
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Indeed, in a cluttered world where one company's product can be nearly identical to another's, quality service is often the deciding factor for finicky customers.
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Then, perhaps, the finicky felines will deign to dip their tongues into the clean water you offer them.
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The wild-mushroom fettuccine tasted flat, but a platter of crabmeat ravioli (with sweet raisins and a carrot-ginger sauce) elicited murmurs of satisfaction from the finicky eaters at my table.
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And then - shocker - it turned out that the roboprojectors were finicky and unreliable and required careful, skilled supervision.
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He knew that Kameon thought he was finicky to the point of psychasthenia.
Covergent Series
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Vanessa owned an Interior Design Company, which was naturally funded by her finicky customers and millionaire father.
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She's really finicky and now I hate helping her.
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Overall it has a very nice look, not worthy of complaint except from the more finicky of videophiles and DVD reviewers who look for such minor flaws as part of their job.
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Oh, all right, then, if you're too finicky to search a dead man's britches.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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The coherer was very finicky and unreliable in operation, so there was a vigorous search for an alternative.
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Eat up your fish and don't be so finicky.
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Not Don - he's really finicky, nitpicking a lot, going, ‘Oh, could we try that again,’ or ‘Could we change this detail?’
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She should be at the bakery, serving finicky customers and drowning in flour.
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Chicken doesn't mean you're demure; it means you're "finicky" echoes Sloane Crosley.
Skinny "Bastards" and Pastors Join "Bitches" in Praising V-word
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Yes | No | Report from phconk wrote 1 week 4 days ago when they are realy biting it doesn't matter but if they are slow go with the maribou to temp the finicky fish. on the other hand bucktail is far more durable
Do you prefer bucktail or marabou for spinners when pike fishing
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a finicky eater
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The interface to the game is rather finicky at times and does require some specific targeting when attempting to point at a person or object.
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The finicky Chuan is also very particular about his clothing.
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I'm also sure my saliva glands would have been working overtime in the presence of something like this, which includes not only "exquisite lugwork," but also chrome, wood, leather, and rivets, which is enough to cause even the most finicky lug-slobberer to drown to death in his own drool:
Hand Luggage: Bike Builders and Lady-Killers
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The limited dynamic range of the soundtrack is an indication of the relative age of Spartacus, but only finicky audiophiles should mind too much.
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I've always known that cat owners are somewhat fanatical when it comes to their pets, but the sheer number of sites devoted to this finicky member of the animal kingdom probably outnumbers the amount of cats in this country.
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You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes.
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He too remembers some finicky editor turning his preference into a fetish.
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When Teresa and I ate there last summer, I was trepidatious about asking for some substitutions, given Shopsin's reputation for being a real hardcase with finicky eaters, but he was glad to try some new stuff for me, and the food turned out superbly.
Boing Boing
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You can't go wrong with a coffee cake - it's not as finicky as an angel or chiffon cake, say, and there's no pastry to fret about.
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For example, what the researchers term a "finicky slow student" - one obsessed with constant review at a very slow pace - will never perfectly learn a given topic.
Gizmodo
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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
The Certain Hour
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Much of it we politely dismiss, like the urgings of finicky hairstylists who insist we cut our hair according to ‘the latest style.’
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She had a curious trick of explaining him, before his face -- in a manner which was not unreminiscent of the lecturer in "side-shows" pointing out the peculiarities of the living skeleton or the glass-eater; but it was done with such ill-concealed pride in him that I found it touching, even when she was boring me about the varieties of food he could not be induced to touch or his finicky passion for saving every bit of string he came across.
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
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The lobster requires dextrous handling, she has a finicky side salad, so neither of them has very much reason to speak.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
Underworld
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We didn't anticipate that we'd appeal to both finicky kids and discriminating chefs.
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The breechclout was so filthy it was like wearing dirt, but this wasn't a time to get finicky.
He Don't Know Him
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Flandry dressed with his usual finicky care in an ornate suit of skintight green and a golden cloak with hood and goggles, hung a needle gun and dueling sword at his waist, and let the slave trim his reddish-brown mustache to the micrometric precision he demanded.
Agent Of The Terran Empire
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If you are finicky about electrical appliances actually functioning in your house or having the lights on, you shouldn't live here.
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On the other hand, no one that stands in finicky dread of it and similar diseases can afford to travel in the South Seas.
Chapter 12
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These people put their time in by performing numerous tasks, including starting, marshaling, first aid, placating "finicky" golfers, janitorial work, cart maintenance and, of course, lessons to beginning golfers.
USATODAY.com - Readers cast their votes, weigh in on worst jobs
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Thanks to a Mormon - dominated city council, drinking laws are finicky.
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He said: ‘Sky-divers are finicky people, and are incredibly safety conscious.’
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I've always known that cat owners are somewhat fanatical when it comes to their pets, but the sheer number of sites devoted to this finicky member of the animal kingdom probably outnumbers the amount of cats in this country.
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Success in that business comes not by understanding and meeting the demands of millions of finicky customers, but by cementing relationships with and winning the support of a handful of powerful decision-makers.
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A beautiful, well constructed, accurate but finicky handgun is really not an option.
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I have indeed been accused of that very thing, but then maybe its because of my keen sense of smell that I am so finicky.
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With finicky precision, he models turntables, scuffed trainers, tape decks and BMX bikes.
