ticky
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9.0
- adjective
- /ˈtɪki/
- Informal
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excesivamente detallado
- Is anyone else getting tired of seeing our secondary being called for the most minor, ticky-tack pass interference calls, while the opponents are much more blatant?
- ticky-tacky
Examples
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Paraphrasing (and correct me if I'm wrong), you said you thought that people would mostly end up living in cities largely because of the efficiencies of urban life compared to McMansions and lots of separate ticky-tack houses.
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You don't see the ticky tack fouls being called and just just let them play.
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So, you know, ticky tacky's gone out with a Spanish.
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This is ticky tack Banana Republic stuff.
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Cookie cutter ticky tacky world or suburban Southern California.
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You don't see the ticky tack fouls being called and just just let them play.
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Refs over there don't call too many ticky-tack fouls, and the game is way tougher for guards.
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The restaurant's decor was too ticky, with every detail overdone and overly fussy.
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After the renovations, the house felt much ticky, as every room was cluttered with unnecessary decorations.
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Many people find the ticky standards of some competitions frustrating because they focus on trivial details.
Synonyms
106
4.4
Careful about small details and hard to please
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
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7.9
Too fussy about being neat and proper
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7.1
Hard to please and careful about small details
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7.9
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details and criticizing them
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9.8
Being very picky about small details
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7.9
Hard to do because it has small, delicate parts
Having small decorative details that are unnecessary
Too worried about small details and hard to please
Careful about small details and hard to please
Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others
Paying too much attention to small, unimportant details
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details that annoy other people
Giving too much attention to small, unimportant details
Careful and picky about small details and choices
Antonyms
How Fussy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ticky can also mean full of small, annoying details; a helpful way to remember this is to think of many tiny ticks, like little marks or problems that bother you. So, a ticky rule or form is one that is fussy and full of small points.