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 .
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."