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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
choosy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I get offered a lot of work now, so I can be more choosy.
▪ She's very choosy about what airline she travels on.
▪ These days, the Marine Corps is very choosy about who joins.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it is a means to more power, which in turn enables you to be choosy about your scripts.
▪ Far from being choosy, female primates seemed to be initiators of much promiscuity.
▪ Others, however, are cutting back the number of films they make and are more choosy about what they finance.
▪ Salmon are choosy about the conditions they live in.
▪ She wanted men to believe that she was choosy, not that she had never chosen.
▪ There is not normally any corresponding selection on males to be choosy about who they mate with.
▪ To do him justice he's not choosy.
▪ Truly promiscuous opportunists would not be too choosy, one would think.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
choosy

choosey \choosey\ choosy \choosy\adj. difficult to please, especially in details.

Syn: particular, fussy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
choosy

1862, American English, from choose + -y (2). Also sometimes choosey. Related: Choosiness.

Wiktionary
choosy

a. taking care when choose that what is chosen best suits one's tastes, desires or requirements alt. taking care when choose that what is chosen best suits one's tastes, desires or requirements

WordNet
choosy
  1. adj. difficult to please [syn: choosey]

  2. [also: choosiest, choosier]

Usage examples of "choosy".

She followed Portobello to its northernmost point, past a few sad-looking stands selling what looked to her like stuff that even the least choosy of bag ladies would be embarrassed to possess, past a vegetarian restaurant with a queue outside, past record shops with Rasta colors in the windows, past a falafel restaurant, under a bridge, and past a bustling market square filled with yet more painfully trendy people.

Now that we had the wealthiest fish in Monte Carlo, we could be choosier as to whom we went to bed with.

It was a long-standing joke in the family that she was choosy and would end up an old maid.

The dragons had not been so choosy that time, and it had been concluded that protective coloration would only work if the most lurid hues were used.

I'm very choosy, and normally wouldn't have gone near a man like Harkins, but I 117 followed you after you got out of that fancy rig, back up by the square.

Mrs Culver told me she's delighted that he's found himself a wife--very choosy, he's been, according to her.

It is not for nothing that Zenith is in matters social rapidly becoming known as the choosiest inland city in the country.

In Biers, unless you weren't choosy, it paid to order a drink that was transparent because Igor also had undirected ideas about what you could stick on the end of a cocktail stick.

Unfortunately, I was hard up for money and couldn't be choosy about selecting desperado days.

He dialled out for a light meat meal with a salad and a bottle of white wine - he wasn't choosy which solar system it came from.