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or choosey
1
as in picky
hard to please
a choosy dog who refuses all but the fanciest food
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as in selective
tending to select carefully
a choosy man when it came to clothes for the office
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Recent Examples of choosy
Investors have grown choosier, and shows are struggling to hit even their minimum capitalizations.
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Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
Coming off a 6-11 season and with limited salary-cap space, the Kansas City Chiefs will have to be choosy when determining which of their free agents to bring back for 2026 and beyond.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Be choosy about compost and soil amendments.
—Dr. Avishesh Neupane, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026
Being choosy right now builds your overall financial freedom.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
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Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
Coming off a 6-11 season and with limited salary-cap space, the Kansas City Chiefs will have to be choosy when determining which of their free agents to bring back for 2026 and beyond.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Be choosy about compost and soil amendments.
—Dr. Avishesh Neupane, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026
Being choosy right now builds your overall financial freedom.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for choosy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choosy
Adjective
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Cherry laurel isn't super picky and will tolerate dry, poor, and alkaline soils, salt, as well as heavy pruning.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
17 May 2026
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Yet, the home run bets also have inviting betting odds, and being picky can be fruitful with only a few hits.—
Josh Shepardson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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While policies vary by subject and institution, hundreds of colleges, including some of the most selective in the country, award academic credit for high AP exam scores.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Baking soda weed killer is a non-selective herbicide.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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The tunnel was built after careful planning and executed with tremendous effort.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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This classy, versatile shirt is easy to wear, either tucked or untucked, with a pair of blue jeans, a satin skirt, or nice trousers.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
20 May 2026
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The win marked a nice bounce-back for Georgetown, which had dropped four of five games before this second straight win.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
20 May 2026
Adjective
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Anton Hur on the myth of the finicky English reader.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Roses are notoriously finicky and prone to diseases like black spot and powdery mildew, so this tougher version that could roll with the punches and didn’t require regular spraying with fungicide seemed like the champion of shrub roses.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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Now better training methods and new technology—in particular, camera and radar networks that can precisely measure a ball’s movement and create three-dimensional models of a pitcher’s mechanics—have helped pitchers learn to throw harder and harder.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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That particular section, which sets new standards around warehouse operations and gives employees more information about company quotas and biometric surveillance, has drawn pushback from CBIA.—
P.R. Lockhart,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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Be aware that long-blooming fuchsia can be quite fussy, preferring cooler temperatures, partial shade, and consistently moist soil.—
Gemma Johnstone,
The Spruce,
14 May 2026
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Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.—
Peter Bogdanovich,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Shooting in Japan, difficult underwater filming, and an extremely demanding post-production with editing, sound design and VFX.—
JD Linville,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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Blue-collar work tends to be more physically demanding and often risky.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Choosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choosy. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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