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Adjective persnickety has 2 senses
- bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish - used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
- pernickety, persnickety - characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
Antonym: unfastidious (indirect, via fastidious)
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