Words and phrases that have a meaning related to pernickety: (118 results)
Often used in the same context:
pedantic, fussy, sniffy, daft, scatty, schoolmasterly, obtuse, censorious, dotty, prissy, pretentious, fastidious, poncey, pettifogging, sneery, pompous, philistine, waspish, snobbish, rebarbative, priggish, captious, nosy parker, tricksy, officious, punctilious, clubbable, proprietorial, prolix, churlish, irritating, risible, humorless, gormless, dodgy, barmy, disdainful, prudish, patronising, stroppy, brusk, pish, uninventive, tactless, judgmental, nitpicky, finicky, supercilious, unladylike, prole, de trop, snooty, unshockable, brattish, crabby, uncharitable, blinkered, unimaginative, twee, booky, cavalier, sheeplike, bemused, unacademic, pushy, maladroit, timorous, disobliging, nosy, bossy, fuddled, silly, clever clogs, ropey, impertinent, pervy, offish, footling, querulous, etiolated, foetid, uncouth, soppy, tutted, scrupulous, shier, shirty, condescending, unadventurous, cynical, grumpy, politer, yobbo, indulgent, graceless, unmannerly, cretinous, contemptuous, fatuous, parti pris, crueller, picky, businesslike, unreflective, blase, carefree, civilised, civilized, cocksure, dejected, extroverted, fickle, frolicsome, indolent, introverted, irresolute, irreverent
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— Nouns for pernickety: man, player, ways, way, mien, precision, mind, fashion, controversies, people, men, more...
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