Finickity

Full definition of finickity

Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.

1993, 7 October, David Covey, Re: unix is user-friendly, It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.
1997, Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True, We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.
2005, House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain, Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report : Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, Q62 Mr Bercow: But Â£86 million is very precise. It is not Â£85 million, it is not Â£90 milllion; it is Â£86 million. ... I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.
2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.