Finicky vs Scathing - What's the difference?
finicky | scathing |
(informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
(informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
harshly or bitterly critical
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 14
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism
, work=Guardian
harmful or painful; acerbic
As adjectives the difference between finicky and scathing
is that finicky is (informal) fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details while scathing is harshly or bitterly critical.As a verb scathing is
.finicky
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- ''The baby was finicky until her diaper was changed.
- The lawnmower is a bit finicky in cold weather.
Usage notes
* The forms (finickier) and (finickiest) also exist, but are quite rare, and perhaps nonstandard. The forms (term) and (term) are much more common, and certainly standard.Synonyms
* fastidious, fussy * SeeDerived terms
* finickiness * finickityscathing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.}}