What's the difference between choosey and choosy?

Choosey


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Choosy


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  • (1) Some quantifiers are choosy as to which they apply to.
  • (2) One banner singled out the labour minister, Elsa Fornero, who recently warned graduates not to be "choosy" about jobs when they enter the job market.
  • (3) Therefore any cost to choice causes choosiness to decline.
  • (4) "Despite rock bottom interest rates making mortgages cheaper than they have been for years, lenders are still very choosy about who they will lend to.
  • (5) Would that be 'selective' in the 'so-choosy-you'll-die-alone' meaning of the word?
  • (6) More choosy females are more constant in expressing their preference, producing greater frequency dependence in the selection of the males.
  • (7) Even before recent market falls, investors had become more choosy after a series of IPOs left them out of pocket during the flotation frenzy early this year.
  • (8) Throughout their evolution males must have evolved adaptations to overcome these barriers, and the conflicting interests of choosy females.
  • (9) Some quantifiers are not choosy: we can talk about "more pebbles" or "more gravel".
  • (10) Anecdotally, agents report that there are fewer purchasers and that those purchasers looking to buy are both cautious and choosy.
  • (11) After a frenzy of demand for flotations early in the year, investors have become more choosy after a series of IPOs left them out of pocket.
  • (12) The offspring of choosy females have not only a Fisherian reproductive advantage but also greater viability.
  • (13) Second, they are seriously bloody choosy about who they feed.
  • (14) Not only does it reinforce an impression of government incompetence, it perpetuates the idea of benefits as an unconditional entitlement and allows a choosy graduate to suit herself at the taxpayers' expense.
  • (15) If I was looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with, why wouldn't I be as choosy as possible?
  • (16) The banks belatedly became a lot more choosy about the people to whom they would lend.
  • (17) Most had, since childhood, been characteristically sickly, inactive, withdrawn and choosy about their food.
  • (18) Generally, as females become less choosy, they express their preference with more dependence on male frequency, whereas the resulting selection of the males becomes less frequency dependent.

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