adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"

adj. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

adj. done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

adj. marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

adj. causing to decrease in importance or value; "detractive influences on the volume of investment"

adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

adj. habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

adj. unpleasant to interact with; "a disagreeable old man"

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

adj. difficult to please

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

adj. primly fastidious

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement

adj. having or showing self-esteem

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

adj. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"

adj. occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"

adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep

adj. excessively proud

adj. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"

adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)

adj. trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness