Crossword-Solution: STICKLER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Stickler | v. t. | One who stickles. |
| Stickler | v. t. | One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. |
| Stickler | v. t. | One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STICKLER | anagram | STRICKLE, TICKLERS, TRICKLES |
We have 19 clues for the answer “STICKLER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One’s particular about how things are done | 1 answer |
| someone who insists on something | 1 answer |
| person who insists on something | 1 answer |
| Slave to detail | 1 answer |
| Person not easily budged | 1 answer |
| Particular person | 1 answer |
| One insistent on things being just so | 1 answer |
| One hard to budge | 1 answer |
| Exacting sort | 1 answer |
| Strict disciplinarian | 3 answers |
| worrier | 6 answers |
| Fussbudget | 8 answers |
| Martinet | 8 answers |
| A PERSON ENGAGED IN SLAVE TRADE | 11 answers |
| Difficult problem | 11 answers |
| Perfectionist | 40 answers |
| CRANK ___ | 43 answers |
| Pedant | 45 answers |
| purist | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with STICKLER (5)
The King therefore commanded that he should be hanged up, and his sonne also with him, lest any more false prophets should arise of that race." Heywood, who was a great stickler for the truth of all sorts of prophecies, gives a much more favourable account of this Peter of Pomfret, or Pontefract, whose fate he would, in all probability, have shared, if he had had the misfortune to have flourished in the same age.
The Prince of Monte Carlo, Who is so very partickler, Has heard that you're also For ceremony a stickler— Therefore he lets you know By word of mouth auric'lar— (That Prince of Monte Carlo Who is so very particklar)— CHORUS.
The corporation didn’t understand it at all; indeed it was with great difficulty that one old gentleman, who was a great stickler for forms, was dissuaded from proposing a vote of censure on such unaccountable conduct.
Nickleby very often observed with much complacency (as most punctilious people do), that she had not an atom of pride or formality about her, still she was a great stickler for dignity and ceremonies; and as it was manifest that, until a call had been made, she could not be (politely speaking, and according to the laws of society) even cognisant of the fact of Mrs.
She’ll come to her sinses when he’s been away long enough, I’m thinkin’.” Owen had tried to be civil to his sister after that, but since he was a stickler for social perfection and advancement, and so eager to get up in the world himself, he could not understand how she could possibly have done any such thing.
Quotes with STICKLER (3)
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.
She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort of thing should go and was vaguely annoyed that it wasn't going.
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born. Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or thr…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1992–2020).