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придирчивый adj.stresses
gen. captious; quarrelsome; cantankerous; contentious; exacting; exceptive; hypercritical; mean; nagging; nice; notional; snappish; snappy; fuddy-duddy; naggy; overnice; picky; sharp-nosed; snorty; censorious; finical; meticulous; spiky; uncharitable; gnarly; quarreling; quarrelling; niggling (Anglophile); scrappy (alex-l1904); chary (Aly19); choosy (Lenochkadpr); demanding (Lenochkadpr); faultfinding (MilaSh); fastidious (userlab); fuddy duddy; sharp nosed; critical; finicking; difficult (sea holly); finicky; overparticular; cavilling; quibbling; fault-finding; fussy (Lenochkadpr); particular (Irina Verbitskaya); fault finding; crusty; finickity (suburbian); carping; waspish (levmoris); argumentative (Syn: quarrelsome. Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start quarrelling with other people.: Great chess players have a reputation for being both eccentric and argumentative. You're in an argumentative mood today! Andrey Truhachev); disputatious; disputative; fribbling
Gruzovik over-particular; crabby
Игорь Миг hardboiled
book. exceptious
context. discerning (ВосьМой)
disappr. petty (Over the next few days, whenever my benevolence was challenged or I felt taken advantage of because two strangers were taking up space in my beloved home, I castigated myself, not them. You are so petty, I'd tell myself, with your sparkling surfaces and White Company candles, these people have lost so much. -- Ты такая придирчивая, говорила я себе dailymail.co.uk ART Vancouver)
inf. pernickety; persnickety; fuddy; sticky; snippy (VLZ_58); testy (what's made you so testy today? Val_Ships); grumpy (Val_Ships); anal retentive (VLZ_58); snarky (VLZ_58)
Makarov. gnarled
modern nitpicky (Franka_LV)
obs. cavilous; cavillous; scrutinous; shrewd
rel., budd. exceptions
Scotl., irish.lang. carnaptious
slang noodge (Interex); nudge (Interex)
придирчиво adv.
gen. contentiously; cautiously; censoriously; meticulously; exigently (in an exacting/demanding manner 'More); shrewdly
Gruzovik captiously
inf. snarkily (kee46)
obs. quarrelsomely; scrutinously
придирчивый: 57 phrases in 12 subjects
Bookish / literary1
General29
Idiomatic2
Informal4
Information technology1
Law1
Literature1
Makarov9
Military lingo6
Nautical1
Slang1
Vulgar1