"a persnickety job"
"a persnickety school teacher"
Such pernickety table manners..seem to me absurd.
出自:J. GathorneThey became pernickety about small things, always fussing about trifles.
出自:E. FigesA vast number of substantiating references..at once persuasive and pernickety.
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