persnickety

How To Use persnickety In A Sentence

• a persnickety job
• Astaire, a professional dancer from the age of 7, did all of his own choreography, and he was as exacting about corrections as the most persnickety repetiteur.
• Sales are too complicated in Manhattan because there are many other factors involved in a sale, such as persnickety co-op boards or new development condos that prefer cash buyers at first. Pauline Millard: Is a Warming Rental Market in Manhattan a Sign of a Better Economy?
• Ms. Jones says "persnickety" details in recipes, such as asking for a specific size onion, mandating "fussy" ways of cutting vegetables and listing expensive or hard-to-find ingredients, are frustrating home cooks. A Shift to Recipe-less Cooking
• However, as any mystery reader knows, a dame accused of murder can't be too persnickety about the company she keeps. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
• Voltaire's novel ends with our hero more or less happily settled down with his love interest, who becomes, unfortunately, kind of persnickety and not much to look at as the years go by, but a talented pastry chef nonetheless. The Speculist: Cultivating Our Garden
• Sorry - I'm not being persnickety for the sake of it; it's just a little hard to accept your assessment of a scientific situation as having predictive weight if you goof up on the language.
• Dogs are far less persnickety about where they relieve themselves, but do them the favor of regularly picking up the poop in the backyard.
• Still, it should be noted that baggage can be an advantage: David Hyde Pierce, who has proven his versatility and range in a number of Broadway successes, remains for many that persnickety noodge of TV's "Frasier," Niles Crane. 'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
• ‘He's a real persnickety son-of-a-gun,’ says Campbell of the director.