Finicky
finicky (adjective) - worried about small details; difficult to please
a finicky palate
finicky taste buds
ever so finicky
finicky about what they eat
the finicky gentleman's gentleman
ever so finicky about
a finicky job
pernickety, finicky quips
the food overjoyed my finicky taste buds
of a rather finicky and solitary disposition
finicky felines
a finicky eater
fishing for finicky fish
finicky customers
providing complicated technical support to finicky business customers
get real finicky and picky
finicky detailed work required in this job
thousands upon thousands of finicky observations and measurements
still a bit finicky
sounds odd and finicky
finicky about place and mood
finicky feeders
a finicky person
being too finicky
finicky manners
finicky intellectuals
very small and finicky
Example sentences:
* The food at the restaurant was inexpensive and overjoyed my finicky taste buds.
* Most his financial records were written out in this very small and finicky handwriting which was very difficult to read and understand.
* "Making and marketing computers require a different set of skills: manufacturing efficiently, shipping products rapidly and then providing complicated technical support to finicky business customers."
* Performing a controlled scientific experiment is a monumental task, performed through thousands upon thousands of finicky observations and measurements.
* "Then, perhaps, the finicky felines will deign to dip their tongues into the clean water you offer them."
* On top of this, my dog has allergies to grass and dust and is a real finicky eater.
* Sometimes I get really finicky and picky.
* General planning and efficiency enhance the often finicky detailed work required in this job.
* "All birds are very temperamental and finicky with their food at the best of times, so I started by slipping titbits of chick under her feet while she was sitting on the glove."
* "Fax modems are still a bit finicky and despite these standards, a small question mark always hangs over whether your fax modem will work with a given package."
* "Wild-caught specimens tend to be finicky feeders and require a diet of live food."
* Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood, but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised.
* This shy, finicky man had been described to him as a wimp, but wimp he was not.
* He thought his wife was being too finicky.
* The captain of the ship was a small man and of a rather finicky and solitary disposition; he fed alone in his cabin.
* Those intellectuals are really something else, with their fancy words and their finicky manners and their too high opinions of themselves.
* And if she gives me any of her pernickety, finicky quips I'll just leave the room.
* You see they don't want finicky jobs, they want a big pay check and simple things to do like stamping envelopes or something like that.
* You daughter is ever so finicky about what she eats nowadays, since she became a vegetarian, worse than you used to be.
* "They're really funny and finicky about a lot of things, you know?"
* She's ever so finicky.
* My little baby is ever so finicky to feed.
* "And it is important to realise that the reason environmental pressure groups are more vocal and, apparently, finicky about these matters is because the environment doesn't speak for itself."
* "Sometimes you have to strike very quickly, such as when fish are finicky and you have to respond to twitch bites."
* "I fish such a bait on a 14 hook, or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky."
* "When fly fishing I occasionally use a quiver-tip on stillwaters, but it is an indicator I find most valuable on rivers, except at those times when the fish are being very finicky, when I will touch-leger."
