| Like a baby who won't stop crying |
Universal |
20 Jul 2025 |
| Particular toppings on food upset stomach, still yummy |
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| Persnickety |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Mar 2025 |
| Over-particular (5) |
Mirror Tea Time |
31 Jan 2025 |
| Nit-picking(5) |
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| Particular about petty details |
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| Full of unnecessary detail or decoration |
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| Pernickety |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Nov 2024 |
| Full of unnecessary decoration (5) |
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| Which one of the Mr Men separates the bits from his marmalade? (5) |
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| Female American given case for study is hard to please (5) |
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| Busy with trifles |
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| Picky, not easily pleased (5) |
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| Fruitlessly refusing to take tiller - they're so pernickety |
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| Particular |
The Telegraph Mini |
06 Jun 2024 |
| Over-particular, finicky (5) |
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| Fastidious |
The Guardian Speedy |
21 Apr 2024 |
| Persnickety, hard to please (5) |
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| Anxious about petty details |
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| Hard to satisfy |
Family Time |
16 Apr 2023 |
| Finicky |
Universal |
16 Apr 2023 |
| Particular |
The Guardian Quick |
27 Dec 2022 |
| Persnickety |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Nov 2022 |
| Too cluttered with detail |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Sep 2022 |
| Particularly persnickety |
The Washington Post Sunday |
27 Feb 2022 |
| Very particular |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Feb 2022 |
| Not easily satisfied |
Newsday |
30 Jan 2022 |
| Too busy with minutiae |
Newsday |
28 Aug 2021 |
| Fastidious; finicky |
The Times Concise |
03 Dec 2020 |
| Persnickety |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Nov 2020 |
| In need of a nap, say |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Feb 2020 |
| Ill-tempered, as a baby |
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| Ill-tempered, as a baby |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2020 |
| Hard to please |
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| Like Felix, in 'The Odd Couple' |
USA Today |
25 Oct 2019 |
| Hard to please or offend one of the Cold War participants almost finishing with democracy |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Jul 2019 |
| Someone who is very selective and hard to please |
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| Like Felix, in "The Odd Couple" |
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| Difficult to please |
USA Today |
31 Aug 2018 |
| Pernickety female quietly leaving Bombay, perhaps |
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| Persnickety |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Apr 2018 |
| Not easy to please |
Universal |
05 Apr 2018 |
| Difficult to please |
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| Not easy to please |
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| Finicky |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Jan 2017 |
| Particularly particular |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Aug 2016 |
| Fastidious |
Newsday |
27 Aug 2015 |
| Fastidious |
The Times Concise |
06 Jan 2015 |
| Not easy to please |
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| Fastidious |
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| Very particular |
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| Persnickety |
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| Hard to please |
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| Hard to satisfy |
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| Hard to please |
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| Persnickety |
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| Persnickety |
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| Difficult to please |
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| Difficult to please |
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| Particular |
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| Particular |
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| Meticulous to a fault |
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| Fastidious |
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| Finicky |
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| Fastidious |
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| Hard to please |
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| Particular |
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| Quite particular |
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| Hard to please |
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| Persnickety |
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| Fastidious |
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| Detail-oriented |
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| Fastidious |
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| Hard to satisfy |
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| Hard to satisfy |
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| Particular |
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| Tough to please |
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| Fastidious |
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| Hard to please |
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| Hard to please |
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| Selective |
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| Tough to please |
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| Selective |
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| Meticulous to a fault |
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| Like Morris the Cat |
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| Too exacting |
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| Persnickety |
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| Punctilious |
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| Worrying over trifles. |
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| Elaborately trimmed. |
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| Finicky. |
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| Difficult to please |
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| Pernickety. |
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| Fastidious. |
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| Finical. |
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| Bustling. |
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| Fidgety. |
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| Overelaborate. |
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| Meticulous |
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