| 单词 | pernickety |
| 释义 | pernickety adjective UKinformaldisapprovinguk/pəˈnɪk.ə.ti/us/pɚˈnɪk.ə.t̬i/(USpersnickety)giving too muchattentiontosmalldetailsthat are notimportantin a way thatannoysotherpeople 吹毛求疵的，爱挑剔的Wanting everything to be right
Examplesofpernicketypernickety This is not a merelypernicketypoint. From theCambridge English Corpus I cannot believe that it would do any harm to issuing houses, although there might be somepernickety, technically-minded accountants who would complain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it really necessary to become sopernicketyin these matters as we have become in the past forty years? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It was not because we werepernicketyin any sense, but because we are seriously exercised about these matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be argued that the railways should make this provision on every occasion; but people can bepernicketyand difficult. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, we have had the bureaucratic nightmare of pervasive,pernicketycontrols over every aspect of the shape, size and quality of products. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 When we get to that stage we are becomingpernicketyand miserable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that we are being unnecessarilypernicketyon this point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This group of amendments is not at allpernickety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that possibly it is being a littlepernickety, because that is known to every specialist in that particular group. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The only thing that worries me is the fact that we may have been toopernicketyin our reform. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He is becoming constitutionallypernicketyall of a sudden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It may bepernickety, it may be a scruple, it may be prudent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 One need not be toopernicketyof what is immediately relevant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that my fellow countrymen are being unusuallypernicketytonight on what is relatively an unimportant matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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