Definition of "pernickety" [per•nick•et•y]

• Persnickety. (adjective)

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• "Personally, I could care less about persnickety or "pernickety" if you're Scottish, fruitless articles that discuss TV ratings or predictable comparisons to tired shows."
• "She poked fun at Wimbledon in her Twitter account by questioning the 'pernickety' attitude supposedly introduced this year."
• "And they adjust alarmingly quickly to life improvements: one minute, you're happy to have made it from youth hostel to hotel; the next, you're getting pernickety about the thread count of the sheets."