pernickety BrE
persnickety AmE

His pernickety attitude and lack of experience led to the film going almost 100 per cent over-budget.

"And maybe this one won't be so pernickety about dissection, huh?"

However, the Protocol system does not encourage additional enquiries on detailed and pernickety points.

I think he thought me very pernickety.

Had her concentrated reading of those letters all afternoon made her unduly pernickety?

The fellow was too pernickety, insisted that all blankets and cushions were vacuumed first.

I am so pernickety about music that this task can become a black hole that sucks away my day.

Mrs. Macdonald was at her most pernickety.

It's very pernickety about where it's grown, preferring cooler climates than France's hot south.

Clearly, we would like there to be less pernickety bureaucracy and we would like to give business a bit of air.

The kakapo's pernickety dietary requirements are a whole other area of exasperating difficulty.

But why is he being so pernickety about bringing up the wreck so slowly, and so scrupulously?

Conor was finding it hard to concentrate; Schwab seemed even more pernickety than usual today and they were progressing at a snail's pace.

According to James Lees-Milne the design was "too eclectic, too pernickety and too tasteless to have been a success".

He worked at the Applecross Cafe as chef yet was called sometimes to serve the most pernickety 'skinnys' who reused to be served by Joy.

Mr Jay asks: "Even though if one was going to be pernickety about it, not to say pompous, about it, it's wrong, isn't it?"

It's very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.'

Fizz wriggled into a more comfortable position and tucked her feet under her, being careful to remove her Doc's first since Buchanan was still pernickety about his new Saab.

This particular green light had so far belied his pernickety reputation and had delivered such goods that he'd been asked for in good humour and with sufficient panache to please his fans.

Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage, either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did.

He then drove to the hotel and, going up to the desk, said that he wished to book either a suite or a comfortable room; but the desk clerk found him a rather pernickety customer.

I may just be being a bit too pernickety but I was in my local camera shop asking for a bag that can hold a netbook, small dslr and 2 lenses and some leads that was compact.

He was a most pernickety man and was not satisfied with grinding lenses as good as those of the best lens-grinder in Holland, they had to be better than the best, and then he still fussed over them for long hours.

I shall give four examples. The first is the overly complex regulations, the difficulties in managing the project cycle, the poor interaction in execution and control between the Commission and the Member States, and, lastly, the often pernickety control which has the effect of taking away responsibility.

He was a small, balding, bespectacled man of a most pernickety clerical appearance with an abundance of grey hair sprouting from his ears, who scratched the answers to his sharp and practised questions in a large black book which bore upon its gold-embossed cover the title: Conduct Register.