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persnickety |
1 definition found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: persnickety adj 1: used colloquially of one who is 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}, {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}]
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