persnickety[adjective]Synonyms: nice, choosy, clerkish, fastidious, finicky, fussy, miminy-piminy, mincy, pernickety, picky
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per‧snick‧e‧ty /pəˈsnɪkəti, pəˈsnɪkɪti $ pər-/
adjective American English[
Date: 1900-2000;
Origin: pernickety 'persnickety' (19-21 centuries), perhaps from particular]
worrying too much about details that are not important – used to show disapproval
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