Meaning of finickity | Babel Free

Definitions

Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.

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Examples

“It's great when you've taken the time to have⟳ persuade⟳ someone to explain⟳ to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.”

“We see⟳, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use⟳ one may make⟳ of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule⟳ like⟳ the rule⟳ of conditional proof.”

“Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think⟳ I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe⟳ rightly.”

“I got most of the money to pay⟳ for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait⟳ at the till queue.”

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