Thesaurus / stickling
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synonyms for stickling
- scrupulous
- strict
- rigid
- particular
- careful
- exact
- formal
- ceremonious
- choosy
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- inflexible
- nice
- persnickety
- picky
- priggish
- prim
- prissy
- punctilious
- stiff
- stuffy
- uncompromising
- demure
- spruce
- tidy
- correct
- Victorian
- ceremonial
- ceremonious
- choosy
- cleanly
- conventional
- dapper
- decorous
- fastidious
- formal
- genteel
- good
- goody-goody
- nice
- orderly
- polite
- precise
- priggish
- prissy
- proper
- prudish
- puritanical
- rigid
- shipshape
- stiff
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- upright
- well-groomed
- wooden
- uncluttered
- blue-nose
- nit-picking
- overmodest
- spic-and-span
- squeamish
- prudish
- Victorian
- fastidious
- finicky
- genteel
- goody-goody
- persnickety
- picky
- precious
- prim
- puritanical
- sissy
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- epicene
- sissified
- goody-two-shoes
- overnice
- pansified
- prim and proper
- tight-laced
- stringent
- tough
- harsh
- scrupulous
- exacting
- severe
- rigid
- stern
- rigorous
- draconian
- austere
- disciplinary
- dour
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- no-nonsense
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- set
- square
- straight
- strait-laced
- stuffy
- unsparing
- uptight
- dead set
- iron-fisted
- unpermissive
- ambiguous
- obscure
- cryptic
- dark
- doubtful
- equivocal
- incomprehensible
- indecipherable
- inexplicable
- inscrutable
- occult
- oracular
- perplexing
- puzzling
- recondite
- secret
- teasing
- uncertain
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- Delphian
- enigmatical
- sphinxlike
- ambiguous
- cryptic
- dark
- doubtful
- equivocal
- incomprehensible
- indecipherable
- inexplicable
- inscrutable
- obscure
- occult
- oracular
- perplexing
- puzzling
- recondite
- secret
- teasing
- uncertain
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- sibylline
- Delphian
- sphinxlike
- choosy
- discriminating
- squeamish
- exacting
- finicky
- fussy
- captious
- critical
- dainty
- demanding
- difficult
- hypercritical
- nice
- particular
- persnickety
- picky
- punctilious
- queasy
- finical
- easily disgusted
- fussbudgety
- hard to please
- nit-picky
- overdelicate
- overnice
- choosy
- squeamish
- fastidious
- scrupulous
- fussy
- critical
- dainty
- difficult
- nice
- persnickety
- picky
- finical
- finicking
- fussbudget
- hard to please
- nit-picking
- overnice
- scrupulous
- choosy
- discriminating
- squeamish
- conscientious
- finicky
- careful
- dainty
- difficult
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- fretful
- fuddy-duddy
- heedful
- painstaking
- persnickety
- picky
- punctilious
- punctual
- querulous
- finical
- conscionable
- hard to please
- nit-picking
- overfastidious
- picky-picky
- blanch
- hesitate
- balk
- waver
- cringe
- tremble
- blink
- shudder
- demur
- backfire
- reel
- wince
- flinch
- dodge
- swerve
- withdraw
- jerk
- falter
- spring
- rebound
- duck
- react
- start
- blench
- stick
- quake
- shake
- quail
- shirk
- carom
- shrink
- kick
- draw back
- turn away
- stickle
- resile
- pull back
- shy away
- step back
- hesitate
- vacillate
- shy
- question
- falter
- demur
- doubt
- stick
- waver
- gag
- boggle
- stumble
- worry
- fret
- stickle
- be loath
- be reluctant
- be unwilling
- have qualms
- think twice about
- hesitate
- vacillate
- waver
- pussyfoot
- disapprove
- resist
- strain
- protest
- scruple
- pause
- fight
- doubt
- dispute
- cavil
- balk
- combat
- object
- stick
- complain
- refuse
- deprecate
- shy
- challenge
- oppose
- remonstrate
- hem and haw
- wait and see
- stickle
- take exception
- contradict
- differ
- balk
- demur
- buck
- refuse
- divide
- pettifog
- discord
- shy
- object
- vary
- decline
- wrangle
- protest
- oppose
- disaccord
- argue
- break with
- stickle
- fly in the face of
- put up a fight
- put up an argument
- say no way
- say not a chance
- say nothing doing
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antonyms for stickling
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- loose
- false
- uncareful
- imprecise
- yielding
- flexible
- careless
- slipshod
- negligent
- questionable
- ambiguous
- inexact
- indefinite
- inaccurate
- lenient
- unscrupulous
- yielding
- amenable
- easy-going
- soft
- mild
- easy
- nice
- gentle
- flexible
- uncertain
- indefinite
- inaccurate
- tractable
- lenient
- facile
- kind
- tolerant
- commend
- help
- support
- believe
- accept
- go along
- endorse
- approve
- agree
- consent
- aid
- give in
- surrender
- praise
- sanction
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How to use stickling in a sentence
"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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