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• s  characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details

• Though pernickety and anachronistic, their comfortably high doors and maneuverable wheelbases were admirably suited to their purpose.
• Now forty-six, Trammell is pernickety about his clothes, neat as a pin around his office.
• A South Carolina cotton picker as a child, Harlem slum dweller as a teenager, Singer Kitt listened with growing impatience to the women's pernickety reports about the causes of .

• persnickety

Quotes

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• Matt Dunigan in Food For Thought - Foodtv
  When you grow up in Texas and Louisiana, you get a serious education in barbecuesays Matt Dunigan. "It's how everyone cooks all the time and they get pretty pernickety about barbecue do's and don'ts. Down south it's pretty much all slow...
• James Callaghan in guardian.co.uk
  Callaghan commented in a margin note: "I think this is pernickety bureaucracy. Let them light up for a bit during the warm summer weeks."