0 giving too much attention to small details that are not important in a way that annoys other people -- 吹毛求疵的，爱挑剔的
It was not because we were pernickety in any sense, but because we are seriously exercised about these matters.
I would not want to see the regulations so pernickety as to destroy that source of finance.
The only thing that worries me is the fact that we may have been too pernickety in our reform.
I cannot believe that it would do any harm to issuing houses, although there might be some pernickety, technically-minded accountants who would complain.
I think that my fellow countrymen are being unusually pernickety tonight on what is relatively an unimportant matter.
It may be argued that the railways should make this provision on every occasion; but people can be pernickety and difficult.
Is it really necessary to become so pernickety in these matters as we have become in the past forty years?
I think that possibly it is being a little pernickety, because that is known to every specialist in that particular group.
