quisquilloso
fastidious ; nitpicking [nit-picking] ; irritable ; fussy ; quibbler ; finicky ; fusspot ; fussbudget ; picky .
Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.
Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
'Searching' or even 'ordering' would be better, so long as we didn't imply by either of them an 'irritable reaching after fact and reason'.
Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
After all, even a healthy cat can become finicky when offered an unfamiliar meal.
As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
ser demasiado quisquilloso
put + too fine a point on
split + hairs
Not to put too fine a point on this, and slap me down if I am being rude, but from the questions you are asking I do not think you are ready for a project of this scope.
This volume is too long, contains too many lengthy theoretical arguments that often split hairs, and is written in a tedious prose style.
ser muy quisquilloso
be picky
However, the MS-DOS file ANSI.SYS is picky about the case of its special commands.
