nitpicky

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nitpicky
Adjective
  • Gregory’s picky eating has been a long-running gag on the show, but when Erica bails on a hard-to-get reservation, Barbara encourages Gregory to fill in so Janine doesn’t have to cancel.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Van Pay and Baumert are picky about words.
    Jack Truesdale, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But our biggest gripe with the classic Cuisinart design is how finicky these elements can be.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The conditions that can foster a super bloom are finicky and delicate.
    Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Zink, who has lived in and around that city for many years, catalogs the ghosts that haunt it with a voice that is cool and fastidious and possessed of a screwball comic sensibility rooted in pain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The exhaustingly prolific Kidman stars as a fastidious suburban teacher/wife/mom who suspects her optometrist hubby (Macfadyen) is hiding something from her and enlists the help of a cute high school shop teacher (Bernal) to expose those secrets in the very strange town of Holland, Michigan.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This is a modern American restaurant with playful seasonal tasting menus that start at $135, a good value for those who want a fine-dining experience that isn’t overly fussy on the Strip.
    Andy Wang, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Although anyone can injure a baby in a moment of frustration, most prevention research has focused specifically on helping parents understand why infants cry or become fussy.
    Lori Frasier, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • However, finical institution Citi is the official presale credit card of the headliner engagements, and Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets a week earlier, from Tuesday, May 18 at 10AM PST to Sunday, May 23 at 10 PM PST through the Citi Entertainment program.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The finical, fanatical, reciprocal chiselling of mind and matter.
    Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • Black women in particular have been using tools like flexi rods for generations.
    Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • One fire unit in particular specialized in collapsed structures.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • All told, the specifics of memory and storage drive home that the Mac mini is far more suitable to mainstream users, while the Mac Studio is for a more exacting, professional market that needs those expensive, lofty levels of RAM and storage.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • For the two musical interludes, Gaga was at her most exacting and confrontational.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For the discerning adult collector, there’s elegance in its absurdity.
    Nik Miles, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
  • These calibers, which have been part of our Manufacture for more than a decade, have been optimized to meet the expectations of the most discerning watch enthusiasts.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Nitpicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nitpicky. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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