Meanings
comparative more pernicketily · superlative most pernicketily
- BritishEnglishstandardBritish English standard form of persnicketily.
He spent little on himself: his income must have been enormous, but he was pernicketily honest, he didn't use any half-legitimate devices for sliding away from taxes, and he had not made an impressive fortune.
1964, Charles Percy Snow, Corridors of Power, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 2941 more example
The hall was brilliantly lit, pernicketily tidy, the hall of a childless couple. No voice greeted me. I went quickly inside the drawing-room. Here also the lights attacked me, as in the dazzle I saw my wife. Saw her quiet, composed, preoccupied.
2010, Charles Percy Snow, Homecomings, House of Stratus, →ISBN
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