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Pernickety vs Niggly - What's the difference?

pernickety | niggly |

As adjectives the difference between pernickety and niggly

is that pernickety is (chiefly|british) fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious while niggly is bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.

pernickety

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (chiefly, British) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
  • Requiring attention to minor details.

    • Synonyms

  • persnickety (US); more on

    • niggly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.
  • trivial, insignificant
  • *2003 , page 5
  • *:They'd argue a lot, about little niggly things — and they had never been like that.
  • *1994 , Douglas R. Graves - Life Drawing in Charcoal] [http://books.google.com/books?id=RZcmIMxv8HYC&pg=PA153&dq=niggly&lr=&sig=VM9X2jg6MmNI-MSzSfNlYnWyTPM page 153
  • *:You soon discover there isn't time (nor is there any need) to put in the niggly details. The essence of the pose is its attitude or action and a hint of the model.
  • pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.
  • *2003 , page 16
  • *:Now things are less confrontational but just as niggly . The Spanish examine drivers' papers with elaborate care, causing huge traffic jams