Crossword-Solution: FINICKY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Finicky | a. | Finical; unduly particular. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “FINICKY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a picky eater | 1 answer |
| Like Morris, in erstwhile 9Lives ads | 1 answer |
| Extremely elaborate | 1 answer |
| Excessively particular | 1 answer |
| finical | 2 answers |
| overnice | 9 answers |
| choosy | 10 answers |
| HARD to please | 10 answers |
| pernickety | 12 answers |
| Squeamish. | 15 answers |
| "Judging ___" | 15 answers |
| meticulous | 31 answers |
| Eclectic | 33 answers |
| Thorough. | 39 answers |
| Fastidious | 40 answers |
| fussy | 44 answers |
| Particular | 52 answers |
| Dainty | 53 answers |
| assiduous | 56 answers |
| Picky ___ | 57 answers |
| discriminating | 59 answers |
| ANALYTICAL | 63 answers |
| Delicate | 65 answers |
| Exacting | 66 answers |
| Disparaging | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FINICKY (5)
There is a classic quote from Rob Pike (inventor of the {blit} terminal): "A smart terminal is not a smart*ass* terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate." This illustrates a common design problem: The attempt to make peripherals (or anything else) intelligent sometimes results in finicky, rigid `special features' that become just so much dead weight if you try to use the device in any way the designer didn't anticipate.
Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style." Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.
Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style." This, then, is the conclusion of the whole matter.
Their neighbors-- One of the chief reasons why these people were rising so slowly where they were rising at all was that the slime seemed to them natural, and to try to get clean of it seemed rather a foolish, finicky waste of time and effort.
Anyhow, who was she, that had been the wife of Siddall, to be so finicky? "You don't believe me?" he said miserably.
Quotes with FINICKY (3)
Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.
Life is not complicated or finicky, it will gladly take you anywhere you choose to go.
These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwise was frightening, raising the specter of some unnameable quantity without which we could not abide, but which we could not summon on demand, least of all by proceeding in virtuous accordance with an established formula. You regarded redemption as an act of will. You disparaged people (people like me) for their cussedly nonspecific dissatisfactions, because to fail to…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2007–2014).