(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(17) Most had, since childhood, been characteristically sickly, inactive, withdrawn and choosy about their food.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.
Fussy
Definition:
(superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
(2) The results indicate that intra-uterine sounds calm 90 per cent of babies who are fussy or crying but have no evident effect on babies who are awake but merely alert or who are slightly drowsy.
(3) You can't grow bananas in Alaska or broccoli at the equator unless you're willing to expend a lot of money to create a very controlled environment, and even then, it's going to be fussy and painstaking.
(4) He is yet to find somewhere despite being described as not a particularly "fussy buyer".
(5) Individual differences in positive, negative, sociability, and soothability were related to the questionnaire scores of fussy-difficult and unadaptability.
(6) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
(7) I just don't like Michelin-starred restaurants that are too fussy.
(8) You couldn’t do that today without calling it grooming, which I suspect the author would see as a piece of fussy editorialising with no place in fiction.
(9) "The display of works of art, for example, is to be fussy about what colour pictures are hung on - at what height they're hung.
(10) Overall 27% of children had febrile (greater than 38 degrees C) reactions, 62% became fussy and 79% had a local reaction.
(11) "Dyson Cinetic cyclones are so efficient at separating microscopic particles that everything gets thrust into the bin, and you can forget about fussy filters.” Ten years' of vacuuming According to Dyson’s testing, its new line of Cinetic cleaners can perform ten years’ worth of vacuum cleaning without needing to replace or wash their filters, which equates to sucking up two tonnes of dust.
(12) I inform them that I will be turning up with a set of index cards on which I have jotted down key points, but will not be boring my audience to tears with fiddly slides consisting of flying text, fussy fonts or photo montages.
(13) Parents were advised to seek prompt attention if symptoms of earache, fussiness, or fever recurred at any time during the 30-day study period.
(14) Analyses showed that female infants who were unable to complete the habituation task were reported as being more fussy and unadaptable.
(15) One famous product was Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup , a morphine and alcohol concoction that was marketed to parents of fussy children as a “perfectly harmless and pleasant” way to produce a “natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain”.
(16) The remark catches his combination of asceticism and elegance: an American journalist once described him as "a haute-couture Gandalf", a wizard who is a little too fussy about his wardrobe.
(17) Visual inspection indicated that "pain-induced" cries could be differentiated from "fussy" and "hungry" cries and that "cooing" could be differentiated from all cries on the bases of (1) the relative amplitude levels of the high-frequency components; (2) the average fundamental frequency; and (3) the overall spectral energy levels.
(18) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
(19) It is concluded that prophylactic acetaminophen as given in this study had a moderating effect on fever, pain, and fussiness after diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis immunization.
(20) In the latter, he played Martin Bryce, a fussy busybody unusually preoccupied with law and order.