Pickyness

"Pickyness" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Step into one of the smart clothes shop and it will surprise you to see the “pickyness” of men.

A general atmosphere of “pickyness” prevailed.

Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.

One piece of pickyness is apt to lead to another.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.