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Finickity (adj) means Very fussy and hard to please, especially over small details.

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Very fussy and hard to please, especially over small details.

"We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof." — Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True (1997)

"It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users." — David Covey, Re: unix is user-friendly (1993)

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