niminy-piminy

adjective

Definition of niminy-piminynext
as in particular

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  1. particular
  2. prissy
  3. prim
  4. finicky
  5. fastidious
  6. dainty
  7. choosy
  8. exacting
Adjective
  • In particular, people who are pregnant and no longer able to safely lie on their belly should avoid it, as well as folks who’ve recently gotten abdominal surgery, Dr. Haas says.
    Christa Sgobba, SELF, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The skin loses some of that ability with age, however, leaving older adults at particular risk of vitamin D deficiency—a situation compounded by the fact that many seniors don't spend lots of time outside and may not eat many foods containing vitamin D, Mason says.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of particular
Adjective
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
Definition of prissy
Adjective
  • The couple shares a son. 09 of 13 Alison Brie (Trudy Campbell) Community star Alison Brie played Pete’s wife, prim and proper daddy’s girl Trudy.
    Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Before each performance, the scene is set by a narrator who speaks in a prim, puritanical accent reminiscent of a bygone era.
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of prim
Adjective
  • Honda is also working to reduce the indirect costs of production, including power consumption even though the necessary temperature of building as solid-state batteries are less finicky during production (and usage).
    Jake Lingeman, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Mauritian women, a renewable source of cheap labor, might be trained to do the finicky work of drilling holes into jewels for luxury watches.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of finicky
Adjective
  • There is going to be this look about her that’s very neat and clipped and tight and fastidious.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • While Richie rails against the restaurant’s extreme attention to detail and particular way of doing things, Duffy and Muser say the actual Ever staff is far more fastidious about its food — and its forks — than audiences saw onscreen.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 2 July 2024
Definition of fastidious
Adjective
  • One is a dog, one is a daintier version of Reynolds himself, one is a Lady Deadpool, and another is emblazoned with the green colors and red dragon of the Welsh flag.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 July 2024
  • This Diamond Initial Necklace from Sarah O is dainty, beautiful, sparkly, and pairs super well with other pieces.
    Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2024
Definition of dainty
Adjective
  • As the consumer gets increasingly choosy , Ma said Costco is also a preferable play because of its focus on value.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Despite some recent sales shortfalls, Signet has been effectively navigating a highly price-promotional retail landscape where consumers have become increasingly choosy.
    David Moin, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of choosy
Adjective
  • The painter’s attempts to capture reality — so exacting, so careful, so prepared — end in what looks like failure.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
  • The French have the historical edge, at least of topiary in its most exacting forms, with the grand formal gardens at the Palace of Versailles and swaths of rounded, bubbling topiary at the gardens of Marqueyssac.
    Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of exacting
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