The definition of pernickety, commonly spelled persnickety, is a particular attention to detail to the point of being too demanding.
(adjective)An example of a pernickety person is someone who stands over a project and hounds the workers until every last minor detail is attended to.
See pernickety in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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