adv
In a blitheful manner.
n
The characteristic of being brassy.
v
(Scotland) To go carefully or slowly; to take care.
adj
Characterised or marked by cheer
adv
In a coolheaded manner.
adj
Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
adj
Skilful, ingenious, cunning.
adj
Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
adv
In a bold, spirited manner.
adj
Tending to fuss over small details
adj
fussy, having particular tastes or whims
adj
Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
n
(in Jewish communities) A fussy or picky person; a connoisseur.
adj
Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
adj
(colloquial) finicky; picky
adj
Alternative form of finikin [(dated) Excessively dainty or fastidious.]
n
finicky behaviour; fussing
adj
(usually said of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
adj
(informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
adj
(dated) Excessively dainty or fastidious.
adj
Alternative form of finikin [(dated) Excessively dainty or fastidious.]
adj
Alternative form of finicky [(informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.]
adj
(UK, dialect) fussy; particular
adj
Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
adv
(dated) In a galliard manner.
adv
(uncommon, dated) Cheerfully; in a gay manner.
adv
(obsolete) Chiefly of dancing or walking: done with small, dainty steps; daintily; also, with excessive delicacy; affectedly, mincingly.
adj
Characterised or marked by glee; gleeful; joyous.
n
A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).
adv
In a pompous or snobbish manner.
adv
In an ostentatiously self-confident manner.
adv
(archaic) In a jemmy manner; neatly, elegantly.
adj
Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
adv
(Scotland) In a manner that is not serious.
adv
(obsolete) in a lively way
adj
Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing.
adj
Alternative spelling of lighthearted [Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad.]
adj
Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
adv
In a lissome manner; with supple grace.
adj
Obsolete form of merry. [Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.]
n
(idiomatic) Great bravery, courage, or composure.
adv
In a newfangled manner.
adj
Characterized by euphemism; euphemistic.
n
(countable) A euphemism; an act or expression of prudishness or excessive modesty.
adj
fastidious; fussy about small details
adv
In a nifty manner; cleverly.
adj
Pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.
n
Alternative spelling of nitpicking [The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.]
adj
Alternative spelling of nitpicky [Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.]
adj
(rare) Synonym of nitpicky
n
The quality of being nitpicky; pedantry over trivia.
adj
Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
adj
(Excessively) detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.
adv
To a very minor degree; slightly.
n
One who outsmarts; the victor in a battle of wits.
adj
(rare or obsolete, also England, dialectal) Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.
adv
British standard form of persnicketily. [(rare) With a great attention to details and precision; in a persnickety fashion.]
adj
Requiring attention to minor details.
adv
(rare) With a great attention to details and precision; in a persnickety fashion.
adj
US standard form of pernickety. [(chiefly Britain) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.]
adv
In a picky way; pedantically.
adj
Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
n
Alternative spelling of pickiness [picky behaviour]
adv
(obsolete) Ludicrously.
adv
In a quaffable manner.
adj
(obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.
n
The use of quips; smart humour.
adj
Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
adv
In a schmoozing manner.
adj
(figuratively, of speech, singing, oratory, etc.) Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
adv
(rare) In a sleek manner.
n
Cunning; craft; artful practice.
adj
(obsolete) cunning; dexterous
adv
(obsolete) With cunning.
adj
(obsolete) cunning; sly
adj
Obsolete form of sly. [Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.]
adj
Obsolete form of sleightful. [(obsolete) cunning; dexterous]
adv
Slenderly; delicately.
adj
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
n
(figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
n
(UK, dialectal) The quality of being sprack, lively, full of energy.
adv
In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.
n
The property of being spry.
n
(uncountable) Courage; spirit; mettle; determination.
adj
(slang) Gracefully stylish.
n
(obsolete) Cunning, craftiness.
adj
(of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.
adj
adroit, skilful or ingenious
adv
(informal, derogatory) In an uptight or fastidious way.
adv
In an uppish manner, arrogantly, with an air of superiority.
adj
Lusty; virile; full of life and sexual energy.
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