persnickety, adj.
characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
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pernickety persnickety
sample sentences
"a persnickety job""a persnickety school teacher"
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(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
bigheaded persnickety snooty snot-nosed snotty stuck-up too big for one's breeches uppish
sample sentences
"a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage"they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
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