Having higher standards, in a way

Usage examples of pickier.

She might not have cared, for the Seelie are pickier about the fey they call lovers.

Already considering her own marriage prospects, Tasia flirted with the young men, though she would no doubt be even pickier than her father.

I guess the discovery of a severed head in the kitchen has a way of putting off your pickier eaters.

A fire pit stood at the other end, and since Bear was pickier than most, he had a smoke hole about as big around as a persimmon in the roof above it.

Many newsstand managers have also become pickier, sometimes refusing to display magazines that fall below a certain circulation figure-again, a figure usually higher than that of most genre magazines.