| 单词 | pernickety |
| 例句 | Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The question is whether whatever is important about Park Hill will remain after its doing-up, which is both drastic and pernickety. Sheffield's streets in the sky 2011-08-20T23:04:08Z There have been absurdities, where pernickety preservationists have fretted over the precise intentions of bygone Cuthberts and Augustuses, and the conservation of works of concrete brutalism has led to special contortions. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z Or is the real Burnham the pernickety statistician who insists "the average person has one fallopian tube"? Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z Does this pernickety process attract a certain personality type? Tim Vine: Master of the mini-joke 2011-01-17T21:44:02Z The character was already written as a pernickety fussbudget but Daniels tuned into his damaged quality also. 'The secrecy has been ludicrous': Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels on the new film and his life as C-3PO 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z He started life as a broadly pernickety side-character on Cheers, but blossomed into something richer and more interesting when he upped sticks for Seattle in Frasier. Shrinking returns: analysing the pros and cons of a Frasier reboot 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The vulgarity surrounding the Booker and Costa prizes is not to my pernickety taste. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z Radio 4's Moral Maze was a passionate, pernickety one last week, on the topic of private education. Rewind radio: Xfm; Moral Maze – review 2013-02-23T22:50:01Z Yes, but without being too pernickety about prepositions, I'm interested in thinking in the weather, not about it. Robert Macfarlane: 'Paths are human; they are the traces of our relationships' 2012-05-26T23:05:33Z Fassbender's Jung is pernickety and precise, a bourgeois academic, his eyes gleaming not so much at the thought of sex with Sabina but the prospect of making a name of himself and supplanting the master. A Dangerous Method ? review 2012-02-09T15:29:01Z I enjoyed the pernickety details of style, and found etymology rewarding. I lived with depression for decades – until my Asperger's diagnosis explained it all 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z And, if Us failed to deliver the same body blow – you can’t pull off that sort of trick twice – it was perhaps because it was hard to love its pernickety, middle-aged narrator. David Nicholls: ‘Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z I thought to myself: “I never knew Ian was so virile, so military in his bearing, such a pernickety sergeant-major of a man.” 'I even loved his Twankey': Dench, Hopkins, Mirren and more on Ian McKellen at 80 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z She knows the muslin sounds “pernickety” but warns us that when she ignored the advice she found the sharp rosemary needles “an unpleasant intrusion”. Kitchen revolution: how Nigella Lawson changed food writing 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z "To tell the story of Glastonbury is difficult," protests my Penguin guide's pernickety author, "so cunning is the mixture of legend and history." Touring a county with 'special energy' - using a 1939 guide 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z For half a century after 1947, a system dominated by pernickety industrial rules emerged, often known as the Licence-Permit-Quota Raj, or Licence Raj for short. The staggering rise of India’s super-rich 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Their shtick was artless banter spliced with improbable comic songs, notable for their pernickety lyrics and eclectic musicianship. Kings of loser comedy: how Flight of the Conchords took off 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z A pernickety referee did not help, but this was desperately fragmented. Zlatan Ibrahimovic late goal gives Manchester United win at Crystal Palace 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z There is a pernickety bit of our brain that thinks if we did not win the last five hands of blackjack we are surely going to get lucky when the next hand is dealt. How random is a random playlist? 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z If that seems a strangely pernickety price, that’s because it’s what you get when you turn the nice round figure of €20m into pounds. Football transfer rumours: Bayern’s Julian Green to Tottenham Hotspur? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Sounds pernickety, but Terry Murphy reminded me of the millions of parcels they handle every year. The complicated art of retail logistics 2013-11-13T13:13:18Z Sorry to be pernickety, but these things add up. Eva Wiseman: London - the post-Olympics interview 2012-08-18T23:05:21Z Blighty appears to be awash with gold at the moment – or gold-plated silver, if you want to be pernickety about it - but the fact is others are much more blinged up. Football transfer rumours: Hulk to Zenit St Petersburg? 2012-08-08T10:05:27Z Forgive me, I was just being pernickety.I agree that asteroids are a contender for most ELE, flood volcanism and impact triggered volcanism are also worth a shout. Asteroid hunting mission unveiled 2012-06-29T02:46:02Z He is as morose and pernickety and feckless as ever. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The Gilmer brothers were a couple of fussy and pernickety old bachelors of a rather retiring, not to say timid, disposition. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z It showed, or so he argued with himself, that this sweet stranger had a soul above the usual pernickety vanities of young womanhood. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z If some creatures can tolerate lower pHs and others cannot, you might expect things to average out: the tolerant and adaptable prosper, the more pernickety perish. Ocean acidification: The other carbon-dioxide problem 2010-07-01T11:08:00Z Indeed, so far only Britain has formally adopted all of its obligations under the 1998 Rome statute, from witness protection to sentence enforcement and pernickety rules on privileges and immunities. International justice: Courting disaster? 2010-05-27T11:06:00Z These were enough to throw Kevin Pietersen into a funk in the outfield, which shows just how pernickety England are being about the standards they keep. Andy Bull: Collingwood happy to play same record 2010-05-13T21:05:00Z I'm a regular child of nature anyway—it's just Amelia who's pernickety about our appearing in full regalia every night for dinner. Nancy of Paradise Cottage This pernickety way of talking never sounds cozy or friendly one bit. Aurora the Magnificent “They don’t want to wear them–but their pernickety 88brothers and fathers and husbands consider them modest,” Alice hit back promptly. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John There’s nothing like heat to drive out those pernickety colds and I wish you’d drink some hot water.” The Girls at Mount Morris It's a business, and a very pernickety one to boot, and it's to keep Bart away from business that we are striving. The Garden, You, and I I remember she was most pernickety about her blacks after my father's death. The Judge She meant it was God's house, I s'pose, but she needn't have been so pernickety. The Girl from Montana If Lindy has a fault in this world, it is that he is as pernickety, as my old nurse used to say—as pernickety as an old maid. Cecilia de Noël His trouble was lumbago or pleurisy or some misery that kept him every minute in this pernickety state. Ma Pettengill All our dwellings are girt about with little villas made of condensed milk boxes, but the feathered tyrants have grown too pernickety to inhabit these. Mince Pie Antonyms: refuse, disallow, prohibit, resist. permit, n. warrant, license, leave, permission. pernicious, a. deleterious, harmful, noisome, baleful, vicious. pernickety, a. Putnam's Word Book I daresay she takes after him, only being a female it all turns to her being pernickety in her food and allus wanting the windows open. The Incomplete Amorist He was so pernickety that you could see him sweeping the grass in his garden with a horsehair brush, or kneeling on his lawn and trimming the turf with a pair of scissors. 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