pernicketily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
British English standard form of persnicketily.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The hall was brilliantly lit, pernicketily tidy, the hall of a childless couple. No voice greeted me. I went quickly inside the drawing-room. Here also the lights attacked me, as in the dazzle I saw my wife. Saw her quiet, composed, preoccupied."
Etymology
From pernickety + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more pernicketily (comparative)
most pernicketily (superlative)