Thesaurus / stickling
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synonyms for stickling
- ambiguous
- cryptic
- obscure
- dark
- Delphian
- doubtful
- enigmatical
- equivocal
- incomprehensible
- indecipherable
- inexplicable
- inscrutable
- occult
- oracular
- perplexing
- puzzling
- recondite
- secret
- sphinxlike
- stumping
- teasing
- uncertain
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- ambiguous
- cryptic
- dark
- Delphian
- doubtful
- equivocal
- incomprehensible
- indecipherable
- inexplicable
- inscrutable
- obscure
- occult
- oracular
- perplexing
- puzzling
- recondite
- secret
- sibylline
- sphinxlike
- stumping
- teasing
- uncertain
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- choosy
- discriminating
- exacting
- finicky
- fussy
- squeamish
- captious
- critical
- dainty
- demanding
- difficult
- easily disgusted
- finical
- fussbudgety
- hard to please
- hypercritical
- nice
- nit-picky
- overdelicate
- overnice
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- punctilious
- queasy
- choosy
- fastidious
- fussy
- scrupulous
- squeamish
- critical
- dainty
- difficult
- finical
- finicking
- fussbudget
- hard to please
- nice
- nit-picking
- overnice
- persnickety
- picky
- choosy
- conscientious
- discriminating
- finicky
- scrupulous
- squeamish
- careful
- conscionable
- dainty
- difficult
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- finical
- fretful
- fuddy-duddy
- hard to please
- heedful
- nit-picking
- overfastidious
- painstaking
- persnickety
- picky
- picky-picky
- punctilious
- punctual
- querulous
- accurate
- cautious
- conscientious
- exact
- fastidious
- fussy
- painstaking
- precise
- scrupulous
- strict
- thorough
- detail-oriented
- conscionable
- crossing the t's
- dotting the i's
- heedful
- microscopic
- nitpicking
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- punctilious
- punctual
- careful
- detail-oriented
- exact
- formal
- particular
- rigid
- scrupulous
- strict
- ceremonious
- choosy
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- inflexible
- nice
- persnickety
- picky
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- punctilious
- stiff
- stuffy
- uncompromising
- demure
- correct
- spruce
- tidy
- uncluttered
- blue-nose
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- dapper
- decorous
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- nit-picking
- orderly
- overmodest
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- spick-and-span
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- upright
- Victorian
- well-groomed
- wooden
- prudish
- squeamish
- epicene
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- goody-goody
- goody-two-shoes
- overnice
- pansified
- persnickety
- picky
- precious
- prim
- prim and proper
- puritanical
- sissified
- sissy
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- tight-laced
- Victorian
- draconian
- exacting
- harsh
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- severe
- stern
- stringent
- tough
- austere
- dead set
- disciplinary
- dour
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- iron-fisted
- no-nonsense
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- set
- square
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- unpermissive
- unsparing
- uptight
antonyms for stickling
MOST RELEVANT
- careless
- false
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- indefinite
- inexact
- negligent
- questionable
- thoughtless
- uncareful
- uncritical
- undemanding
- unscrupulous
- messy
- sloppy
- undetailed
- careless
- easygoing
- flexible
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- indefinite
- inexact
- lenient
- uncareful
- unscrupulous
- yielding
- ambiguous
- loose
- negligent
- questionable
- slipshod
- tolerant
- easy
- easygoing
- facile
- flexible
- gentle
- kind
- lenient
- mild
- nice
- soft
- tolerant
- amenable
- tractable
- uncertain
- yielding
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"All the caves you want," said Bernel, scornful at such unusual stickling on the part of his chum.
A MAID OF THE SILVER SEAJOHN OXENHAMThis is seen in their way of stickling for accuracy when others repeat familiar word-forms.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYWhy, man, I found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them 'ware haunch!'
WAVERLEY, OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS HENCE, COMPLETESIR WALTER SCOTTThe artists fought this influence, stickling a long time for the severer classicism of ancient Greece.
A TEXT-BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTINGJOHN C. VAN DYKE"This will be brought to you by Stickling," the note said; but who Stickling was Vavasor did not know.
CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?ANTHONY TROLLOPEI really think I could give you a commission without much stickling of my conscience.
VIVIAN GREYEARL OF BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELIWORDS RELATED TO STICKLING
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