picky

Preposition: about

• thing: And it doesn't even have to be specific to the Harry Potter fandom if you're picky about these things.
• food: Getting off the beaten track will mean you can't be picky about food or accomodations.
• format: The film industry is very, very picky about format.

Preposition: of

• palate: Moorish and Berber dishes to delight even the most picky of palates.

Modifies a noun

• eater: Many clients tell me their fat dog or cat is a picky eater.
• eating: Ask Our Experts: Toddler Hates Chunky Food When does picky eating become a threat to a toddler's health?
• person: You have made a very picky lunchtime person very happy!
• point: Very minor picky point tho, and it ' s just because I'm jealous!
• bunch: In that time we've really become a picky bunch of people.
• taste: Personality: Mature, has picky taste; knows what she wants.

Modifying Another Word

• notoriously: Design Surfers are notoriously picky about the sites that they visit.
• too: Or I can charge him with not being too picky about who his friends are.
• very: Tutor Criteria We are very picky about our tutors!
• rather: Databases are rather picky creatures; one key letter read wrong by the database creator can throw a huge monkey wrench into your search.
• really: If you want to be REALLY picky, you could say it's firmware based.
• quite: Since becoming artistic director at London's Old Vic theater you've become quite picky with your film roles.

Used with adjective complement

• get: I guess the clients of spam companies are starting to get pickier about the quality of the lists.
• become: Since becoming artistic director at London's Old Vic theater you've become quite picky with your film roles.
• seem: It does seem picky about which brands it wants to crush.
• sound: I am a pedestrian and, without sounding picky, I was there first.