finicky
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Finicky maybe, and that could be attributed to trust issues, but bougie?
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2023
Finicky parents can pack special cooked or canned meals for their beloved beasts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2015
Finicky types, with their hypersensitive taste buds, tend to belong to the first group.
From Time • Feb. 17, 2015
Finicky as a clerk, he keeps his house shipshape, puts up a shelf, arranges the flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Smaug, the Irrepressibly Finicky, was our industrial-strength water boiler.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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