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persnicketyadjective hard to pleaseas she got older, she got more and more persnickety choosy(or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety(chiefly British), picky hyperfastidious, overdemanding, ultrafastidiousdiscerning, discriminating, selectiveinsightful, knowledgeablecaptious, carping, caviling(or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcriticalcareful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulousqueasy(also queazy), squeamishpeevish, petulant, prickly, touchyniminy-piminy, prim, prissy undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy affable, breezy, carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, lackadaisical, laid-back, low-pressure, relaxedflexible, lax, looselenient, permissiveuncriticalindiscriminating, undiscriminating requiring much time, effort, or careful attentionlacked the patience to deal with such persnickety tasks as hanging wallpaper arduous, burdensome, challenging, demanding, exacting, grueling(or gruelling), killing, laborious, onerous, taxing, toilsome difficult, formidable, hard, herculean, rough, rugged, stiff, strenuous, testing, toughoppressive, tryingrigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent light, nondemanding, unchallenging, undemanding easy, effortless, facile, simple, smooth being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferiorhis persnickety attitude lost him some friends when they found out what he really thinks of "their kind" aristocratic, elitist, high-hat, potty, ritzy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, toffee-nosed(chiefly British) aloof, arrogant, bumptious, haughty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-handed, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppitybiggety(or biggity, Southern & Midland), bigheaded, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), prideful, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed, swellheaded democratic, egalitarianegoless, humble, modest, unpretentiousantielitist in 1889 |