as in careful
hard to please
cats have a reputation for being finicky eaters
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Recent Examples of finicky
But there are many other types of ferns that are much less finicky indoors, including lemon button fern, crocodile fern, and bird’s nest fern.
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2025
Some houseplants are finicky about humidity, but African violets are usually content with standard household humidity levels.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2025
On the downside, motion duck decoys are expensive and some of them are finicky in field conditions.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2025
Some houseplants are finicky about humidity, but African violets are usually content with standard household humidity levels.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2025
On the downside, motion duck decoys are expensive and some of them are finicky in field conditions.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finicky
Adjective
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These concerns underscore the need for careful consideration of privacy rights when deploying such technology.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
15 Mar. 2025
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Why America's business leaders engage in delicate diplomacy Corporate America's careful rhetoric — even as many big companies brace for the impact of the market volatility and the tariffs — illustrates the delicate diplomacy that business leaders are trying to engage in.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Suede bags are still everywhere and a nice commercial proposal adapted to many trends.—
Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
17 Mar. 2025
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The sound quality is crisp and full-bodied, with a nice bass punch, and the Immersive Audio feature adds a fun, spatial touch to your listening.—
Shubham Yewale,
PCMAG,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Jonathan Pryce plays the persnickety headmaster who prefers to keep politics outside the school walls.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2024
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Kurkdjian’s policies as head of the department reflect both a persnickety attention to detail and an obsession with creative autonomy.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
16 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Sure, a comfy booth and a great kids’ menu may be enough to keep picky eaters pleased.—
Liz Regalia,
Parents,
8 Mar. 2025
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Walsh’s shot deflected in off an SI defender, but at that point in the game, Mitty wasn’t picky.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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When families express concern, the corps’ advisors don’t steer them toward any particular path, Adorno said.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Mar. 2025
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Opinionated early American journalism At the nation’s founding, the very first newspapers were highly partisan, supporting and receiving much of their funding from particular political parties and government subsidies.—
Joseph Jones,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Carruth’s broad goal of rose breeding and hybridization is to make the rose a contender with all plants, rather than a fussy queen of the garden.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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If all that seems too fussy, remember that there's always no-bake cheesecakes.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The fastidious, precociously mature character served as a comedic foil to his feistier mother as well as the rest of the show’s broader Pritchett-Dunphy clan.—
John Russell,
People.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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The girls are both members of the school’s choir, a traditionalist institution overseen with fastidious strictness by conductor Bojan (Saša Tabaković), whose preferred repertoire of dusty hymns and local folk songs gives the girls a collective air of ethereal purity when singing.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The most obvious question those holding or thinking of picking up tickets for future shows might be asking is whether Ann could still deliver some of the most demanding wailing in the rock ‘n’ roll canon at age 74, with or without the recent issues.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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While lapidary work involves precise and sometimes physically demanding tasks, the CEYLONS female gem-cutting program aims to banish any and all misconceptions that such labor is unsuitable for women.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Finicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finicky. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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