niminy-piminy

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Adjective
  • Starting pitching, in particular, figures to be a priority.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • By buying programmatically, advertisers can snatch up inventory likely to reach a particular type of consumer under more specific conditions than possible in linear TV.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • The question is whether his oldest friendships, with both the prim Serge and the anxious people pleaser Yvan (Corden), will survive the wrath provoked by the great white rectangle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • However, the stakes have ever been only so high in this prim, proper and altogether charming world, so why change that now?
    Mark Meszoros, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Kirundo 3-Piece Lounge Set Layers are the secret to surviving the South’s finicky fall season.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, the vacuum was thought of as merely a finicky factor to be implemented as well as possible.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Scorn is a salve for her—an enjoyable expression of her fastidious nature and a coping strategy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The company is nonetheless fastidious about the fundamental details.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One detail found in various shoes was a metal ring that lent an edgy element to various silhouettes, from the aforementioned sandal to a heeled sandal, which embodied dainty minimalism with an asymmetrical strap.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Kidman topped the look with a dainty black bow that hung delicately from her long, golden locks.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • LinkedIn's algorithm is choosy.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Known for being among the choosiest of the choosy buildings and the longtime home of Henry Kissinger, whose sprawling duplex, full of green upholstery and black candles — very Sister Parish — has yet to come on the market since his death.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The finical, fanatical, reciprocal chiselling of mind and matter.
    Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • However, finical institution Citi is the official presale credit card of the headliner engagements, and Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets a week earlier, from Tuesday, May 18 at 10AM PST to Sunday, May 23 at 10 PM PST through the Citi Entertainment program.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 May 2021
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“Niminy-piminy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/niminy-piminy. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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