as in careful
hard to please
cats have a reputation for being finicky eaters
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Recent Examples of finicky
Switching brands is easy, and customers are more finicky than ever.
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Shep Hyken, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
But the spring portal can also be particularly finicky.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Keep in mind: Shipping fresh flowers can be finicky, especially to hundreds of stores across the country.
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025
Onions of all kinds prefer a cool dry place, but some, like Vidalia onions, which contain more moisture, can be more finicky than others.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
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Shep Hyken, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
But the spring portal can also be particularly finicky.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Keep in mind: Shipping fresh flowers can be finicky, especially to hundreds of stores across the country.
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025
Onions of all kinds prefer a cool dry place, but some, like Vidalia onions, which contain more moisture, can be more finicky than others.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for finicky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for finicky
Adjective
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Watch out for slippery roads: Be extra careful during the first half hour after rain begins.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
25 May 2025
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Many participants with conflicting ideologies also reported cohabiting peacefully for the most part, while being careful not to bring up divisive topics and focus on their similarities instead.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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From the outside, Lyons’s house is a textbook Baltimore row home with a modest porch made for relaxing on a nice day or having a smoke while you people-watch.—
Lawrence Burney,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2025
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Wilson completed a pass to Dee Eskridge, who made a nice one-handed catch with cornerback Kendall Sheffield in coverage.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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What would the notoriously persnickety Corbitt say about those bold additions?—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
17 May 2025
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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
Adjective
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The Braves are not in a position to be picky about defense.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025
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Sometimes gratitude came easily, such as when Deb helped their kids, who were picky eaters, become more adventurous.—
Rhaina Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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This year, in particular, organizers for pride events, including in San Francisco and Houston, are seeing corporate sponsors pull out or give less of financial support.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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This person’s crush probably has nothing to do with the grocery employee, but everything to do with a rush of brain chemicals that happened to occur in their particular brain coincidentally at that moment and in that space.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Denim, in general, is one of the most effective ways to make an outfit look less fussy and more lived-in.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
21 May 2025
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Society has called these people fussy, or in more recent times, metrosexual.—
Dave Schilling,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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In the past several weeks, President Donald Trump, who has never been fastidious about separating public and private business, has been involved in a remarkable number of potential conflicts of interest.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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In Experiment City, scientific progress and a collective ethos have had counterintuitive social consequences: Citizens occupy uniform studio apartments, becoming increasingly insular and fastidious about the cleanness of their bodies.—
Madeleine Feeny,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Additionally, ensuring data accuracy and integrity within compliance features, especially for reporting and audit trails, can be technically demanding and prone to errors if not carefully managed.—
Suresh Kannan,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Any number of left-leaning columnists at prestigious media outlets tried to bat down the rumors that Biden’s visible aging (as manifested both physically and mentally) was compromising his credibility as a viable candidate for perhaps the most demanding job in the world.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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“Finicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finicky. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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