finicky
IPA: fˈɪnʌki
adjective
- (informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
- (informal) Demanding; requiring above-normal care.
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Examples of "finicky" in Sentences
- Chicken doesn't mean you're demure; it means you're "finicky" echoes Sloane Crosley.
- On the other hand, no one that stands in finicky dread of it and similar diseases can afford to travel in the South Seas.
- Poinsettias, for example, are known as finicky plants that crave dark more than light, and which will die without that proper care.
- Sometimes that kind of finicky analysis can indeed ruin the magic, but it can also improve one's appreciation of a truly great work.
- For example, what the researchers term a "finicky slow student" - one obsessed with constant review at a very slow pace - will never perfectly learn a given topic.
- These people put their time in by performing numerous tasks, including starting, marshaling, first aid, placating "finicky" golfers, janitorial work, cart maintenance and, of course, lessons to beginning golfers.
- Because the particles block direct sunlight more than diffuse rays, they also alter the balance of radiation reaching Earth's surface, with unknown consequences for plants that can be kind of finicky about the kind of sunlight they need.
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