as in careful
hard to please
cats have a reputation for being finicky eaters
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Recent Examples of finicky
The touring circuit had previously been dependent on stars, but humans are finicky and capricious.
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
Just be sure to test the cleaner on an inconspicuous area first—stainless can be finicky and easy to mistake for another finish.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Its sandbox-style user experience can be finicky, but the results are solid.
—Bernard May, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
There, Remy helps bumbling kitchen worker Alfredo Linguini cook a series of increasingly delectable dishes that soon attract the attention of the city’s most finicky restaurant critic, Anton Ego.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
Just be sure to test the cleaner on an inconspicuous area first—stainless can be finicky and easy to mistake for another finish.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Its sandbox-style user experience can be finicky, but the results are solid.
—Bernard May, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
There, Remy helps bumbling kitchen worker Alfredo Linguini cook a series of increasingly delectable dishes that soon attract the attention of the city’s most finicky restaurant critic, Anton Ego.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finicky
Adjective
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Navigating this revolution responsibly requires careful policy, support for adaptation and a focus on using technology to benefit people.—
Vaibhav Dani,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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As temperatures eclipsed 95 degrees in Kansas City, the Royals took careful precautions to contend with the heat advisory.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Both Trejo and Crowley rode in the 2025 Centennial Tucson Rodeo, a nice mirroring of the agency’s own 100-year history.—
Suzanne Wright,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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The in-between woman has a nice corporate job in a nice corporate office.—
Weike Wang,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But Wilson is in his comfort zone as ever with Anderson, playing Francis’s persnickety dedication to the trip’s itinerary with his typical generosity.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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What would the notoriously persnickety Corbitt say about those bold additions?—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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Over the years, she’s learned how to turn picky eaters into adventurous ones.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
14 Aug. 2025
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For parents navigating naps, picky eaters and sandy swimsuits, the all-inclusive model can be the ultimate travel hack.—
Michelle Stansbury,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Smart jewelry, in particular, has often prioritized surface-level features—mirroring phones, flashing lights—without addressing what relationships actually need: space to feel, respond, and grow.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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For startups, in particular, AI has transcended innovation budgets to become a fundamental operational imperative, driving tangible value and reshaping entire industries.—
Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no need to boil a kettle in an already stuffy kitchen, no fussy pour-over rituals, no expensive machinery or pods to purchase, and, surprisingly, no specialized cold-brew equipment required.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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Clad primarily in glass, Ascent is unnecessarily fussy in its articulation with a few too many nips and tucks in its plan.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 July 2025
Adjective
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The swashbuckling sire, the deadpan ingénue, the sans serif font, the one-point perspective — Anderson’s held fast to his favorite elements even as his canvases have gotten broader and his style even more fastidious.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
18 May 2025
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This is true of people who don’t bathe and also people who are fastidious about bathing and douse themselves in cologne, and everyone else in between.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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Baldwin has done it while playing the most difficult and demanding position on the diamond, mentally in terms of daily meetings and film study, and physically from the toll of working beneath pads in the summer heat and getting nicked up from foul tips, collisions and occasional wayward swings.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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This has come as a result of America being too demanding and being very political.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Finicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finicky. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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