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pernicketily

adv

Etymology

From pernickety + -ly.

  1. borrowed from pernickety
  2. suffixed as pernicketily — “pernickety + ly”

Definitions

  1. British English standard form of persnicketily.

    • He spent little on himself: his income must have been enormous, but he was pernicketily honest, he didn't use any half-legitimate devices for sliding away from taxes, and he had not made an impressive fortune.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA