[ adj ] exacting especially about details <adj.all> a finicky eaterfussy about clothes very particular about how her food was prepared
Some companies, like Massachussetts-based Lexington Insurance Co., are picky about what they'll insure and what they won't. Lexington avoids insuring houses with rolling floors for fear they will collapse.
Moreover, students today are used to eating out and are "a lot more picky," says Julie Woodman of Report on Institutional Food Service.
When men, who account for about 15% of customers, do buy, "they're more picky than women about the fit and color" of pants and shirts, she adds.
Some states hold cargo owners responsible for spills even if they don't control a fleet, making oil firms "very picky" about ships they use, says Gary Wolfe of the law firm Hill, Betts & Nash.
Dumas said those who criticized the praise for Gadhafi were "being picky." Newspapers in France and across Western Europe claimed France exchanged three fighter planes for the three hostages.
Investors did appear to become more picky about which cyclical stocks they wanted to hold.
You have to be picky. You learn to stop eating after one bite.
Japanese investors "want to invest a lot of money for the right deals and the right relationships, but they can be conservative and picky," says Alex Ben Block, who publishes a movie business newsletter, Show Biz News.
But at age 32, he doesn't want to get picky over such things as when and where his movies are shown.