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The pernickety woman instructs her husband on the right way to paint a fence.
The definition of pernickety, commonly spelled persnickety, is a particular attention to detail to the point of being too demanding.
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.
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adjective
Persnickety.
Origin of pernickety
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Adjective
(comparative more pernickety, superlative most pernickety)
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