pernickety job

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• pernickety — adjective BrE informal 1 worrying too much about small and unimportant things; fussy (1); persnickety (1) AmE 2 difficult to do because you have to deal with a lot of small objects; fiddly (1): Changing this fridge lightbulb is a pernickety job …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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• persnickety — adjective Etymology: alteration of pernickety Date: 1915 1. a. fussy about small details ; fastidious < a persnickety teacher > b. having the characteristics of a snob 2. requiring great precision < a persnickety job > • persnicket …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• finicky — Synonyms and related words: accurate, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aware, careful, choosy, close, concentrated, conscientious, conscious, correct, critical, dainty, delicate, demanding, detailed, difficult,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• meticulous — Synonyms and related words: OK, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, accurate, active, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all right, assiduous, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, aware, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy, choosy …   Moby Thesaurus

• nice — Synonyms and related words: Christian, Christlike, Christly, according to Hoyle, accurate, acute, advantageous, advertent, affable, affectionate, agog, agreeable, agreeably, alert, all ears, all eyes, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appreciative,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• persnickety — adjective 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, ↑snooty, ↑snot nosed, ↑snotty, ↑stuck up, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary