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Over-particular for every prison, yet disorganised
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pernickety
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Word definitions for pernickety in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His pernickety attitude and lack of experience led to the film going almost 100 percent over-budget. ▪ However, the Protocol system does not encourage additional enquiries on detailed and pernickety points.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1808 ( pernicktie , in Jamieson), "precise, fastidious," extended form of Scottish pernicky , of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from particular .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly British English) fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious. 2 Requiring attention to minor details.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher" [syn: persnickety ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pernickety \Per*nick"et*y\, Pernicketty \Per*nick"et*ty\, a. Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.] Syn: persnickety. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Usage examples of pernickety.
He was a most pernickety man and was not satisfied with grinding lenses as good as those of the best lens-grinder in Holland, they had to be better than the best, and then he still fussed over them for long hours.
I guess they must have have come from at least four different distant shores, and you have the time to personally inspect our documents in the most pernickety detail?
The white housekeeper, despite her years and her pernickety adherences to the house.
Then old Luttrell, he gave everybody a clean bill - too clean about the Treshams and Miss Parker and Miss Rogers - but absolutely on the level in his pernickety way.
The white housekeeper, despite her years and her pernickety adherences to the house.
Remember, your astrological sign is that of the goat, and goats are not given to fits of the vapours (not in the Victorian acceptance of the word, that is to say ) and have never been pernickety about their food.