[
UK
/stˈɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˈstɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɪkəɫ/ ]
VERB
- dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
How To Use stickle In A Sentence
- A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
- In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire. Times, Sunday Times
- This is most stunningly displayed in the show's chief highlight, a re - creation of the dining room first exhibited in the 1903 Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by Stickley in Syracuse, N.Y. The room incorporates the handsome, massive furniture in a setting where everything from the oak-and-burlap wainscot to the pottery vessels on the table and sideboard was designed or overseen by Stickley himself. Four-Square Reformer
- His main job is penciling — creating the initial drawings, based on stories from writers, which are then finished by inkers — and he is known as a stickler for detail. Archie: American Idol
- The unpredictability of island life has made him a stickler for schedules.
- Space should not stickle on the traditional logic thinking way, but should explore the innovative shape ploy to create the sense of full of the milk of human kindness, fashionable and modern.
- He is always the first in to work and is a stickler for detail. The Sun
- Though "graceful" is a word one wouldn't readily apply to Stickley's cabinetry, there is a certain massive elegance to his lighting fixtures. Four-Square Reformer
- The most common of these have been the American eel, alewife, common mummichog, Atlantic silverside, and three sticklebacks (fourspine, threespine, and ninespine). Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine
- The sport of golf is a stickler for abiding by the rules.