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Meaning of persnickety


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  persnickety
      adj 1: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a
             snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le
             Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and
             persnickety" [syn: {bigheaded}, {persnickety}, {snooty},
             {snot-nosed}, {snotty}, {stuck-up}, {too big for one's
             breeches}, {uppish}]
      2: characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial
         details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
         [syn: {pernickety}, {persnickety}]


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