finicky
Example Sentences
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His first recommendation comes long before you board, during the finicky process of where to sit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
Restaurants have struggled this year with rising costs for ingredients such as beef, scarce labor and more finicky customers.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 18, 2025
It isn't "finicky" like some, can be frozen and revived without trouble, and is unusually good at hosting foreign DNA.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
The capsules themselves can be a little finicky, so if fuss-free is your priority, you may prefer the PAX.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025
Judging from that morning, she was pretty finicky about her books.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing finicky
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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