Finickily vs Finickity - What's the difference?
finickily | finickity |
Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
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As an adverb finickily
is in a finicky way.As an adjective finickity is
fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.finickity
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, accessdate=2008-09-21 , passage=It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users. }}
citation, isbn=0199251606 , page=327 , passage=We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof. }}
citation, isbn=0215024230 , page=9 , passage=Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. I am sorry if you think I am being finickity'; I am being very ' finickity about it but I believe rightly. }}
citation, isbn=1861058403 , page=11 , passage=I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue. }}