as in careful
hard to please
cats have a reputation for being finicky eaters
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Recent Examples of finicky
The same goes for why Kia didn’t replace the finicky and annoying setup with physical buttons, as its corporate sibling Hyundai did on the Ioniq 5 compact SUV earlier this year.
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Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
They were clearly well liked by the locals who filled up the dining area — Northland natives notoriously finicky about Wisconsin’s traditional Friday fish fry.
—David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Robots are expensive and finicky while laborers are cheap and require minimal training.
—Will Yakowicz, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Instead of using some finicky, vulnerable device like RRAM, EnCharge uses capacitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
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Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 26 Aug. 2025
They were clearly well liked by the locals who filled up the dining area — Northland natives notoriously finicky about Wisconsin’s traditional Friday fish fry.
—David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Robots are expensive and finicky while laborers are cheap and require minimal training.
—Will Yakowicz, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Instead of using some finicky, vulnerable device like RRAM, EnCharge uses capacitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finicky
Adjective
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But Eliasen is careful not to let scope creep derail initial implementations.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Giving Wickham a nice holiday tan would be a bridge too far for the genteel world of Jane Austen.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some decisions are prudent, such as the Las Vegas Raiders to defeat the New England Patriots at a nice underdog price.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But Wilson is in his comfort zone as ever with Anderson, playing Francis’s persnickety dedication to the trip’s itinerary with his typical generosity.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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What would the notoriously persnickety Corbitt say about those bold additions?—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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Moyes takes his time assessing and signing off on targets and is notoriously picky.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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My youngest son's the pickiest.—
Erin Clements,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In particular, the bacon bits were chilled and all stuck together in one big, congealed lump along the inside of the bowl.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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Technology firms — and artificial intelligence companies such as Broadcom and Nvidia, in particular — led the rise.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This might seem fussy, but no one likes watery pimiento cheese.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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Boxing makes for a hell of a cinematic watch, quick and easy to follow, winners obvious, losers clear, plenty of blood to spill, and Michôd doesn’t get fussy with his fight scenes.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Competition arrived in May, when the Rosewood Amsterdam opened its doors in the former Palace of Justice after a fastidious 10-year renovation that reportedly cost hundreds of millions of dollars.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
27 July 2025
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This is true of people who don’t bathe and also people who are fastidious about bathing and douse themselves in cologne, and everyone else in between.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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Bassini has observed the circuit of influencers and hopefuls who try a more demanding don’t-you-know-who-I-am approach, only to see them get turned away unceremoniously each time.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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By contrast, six Black women have journeyed to outer space as astronauts, a job that is equally demanding and risky and for which the odds of being selected are very low.—
Gena Cox,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Finicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finicky. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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