finicky in the PONS Dictionary

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This is the problem of dealing with finicky technology -- sometimes it just doesn't work.
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Lead singers can be a finicky, fragile lot.
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I am not being finicky or anything but seriously, it was bad.
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Because of the wide variety of baits that are known to work and their finicky nature, they are considered among fishermen as being an opportunistic or lazy feeder.
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As these problems further reduced the reliability, the sound quality, and the smoothness of the tape speed, the eight-track eventually developed a reputation for being finicky and unreliable.
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By overcoming its biggest critic -- the finicky human body -- virtual reality has proven that it's ready to arrive in our homes.
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He is very agile and finicky.
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He soon found that with higher quality crystals their finicky behaviour went away, but so did their ability to operate as a radio detector.
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This radio receiver has remained somewhat finicky ever since then, but it has been nursemaided along technically, and it has never failed.
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While the literal meaning of the word is hook, the surname stems from the figurative meaning of finicky person, a quibbler, but also a stoop-shouldered person.
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