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51nice — adj 1. agreeable, pleasant, winning, winsome, taking, delightful, attractive, likable; cheering, cheerful, amusing, humorous; amiable, friendly, cordial, genial, congenial; charming, gracious, generous, warm hearted, sympathetic, understanding,… …
52pedantic — adj 1.(all in reference to one s learning) pretentious, show offish, ostentatious, pompous, haughty, vain, conceited; pedagoguish, scholastic, pe dantical; professorial, didactic, preachy; dogmatic, pragmatic, opinionated, bigoted. 2. punctilious …
53persnickety — adj Informal. 1. fastidious, fussy, finical, finicky, Inf. nitpicking; particular, discriminating, discriminative, highly selective, Inf. choosy; picayune, hairsplitting, trifling, petty, Inf. fuddy duddy; punctilious, precise, exact, attentive… …
54refined — adj 1. cultivated, polished, cultured, civilized, well bred, genteel, courtly; finished, fine, urbane; gentlemanly, ladylike, mannerly, polite, courteous; aesthetic, tasteful, in good taste, graceful, delicate, exquisite; noble, gentle, pure;… …
55strait-laced — adj puritanical, puritan, prudish, nice nelly, moralistic, strict, austere, ascetic; severe, precise, abstinent, abstemious; stiff, stiff necked, rigid, arbitrary, narrow, uncompromising; priggish, over modest, old maidish, old fashioned, of the… …
56punctilious — [adj] careful, finicky ceremonious, conscientious, conscionable, conventional, exact, formal, formalistic, fussy, good eye*, heedful, meticulous, nice, observant, overconscientious, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, persnickety, precise,… …
57queasy — adj. ( ier, iest) 1 a (of a person) feeling nausea. b (of a person s stomach) easily upset, weak of digestion. 2 (of the conscience etc.) overscrupulous, tender. Derivatives: queasily adv. queasiness n. Etymology: ME queysy, coisy perh. f. AF &… …
58squeamish — adj. 1 easily nauseated or disgusted. 2 fastidious or overscrupulous in questions of propriety, honesty, etc. Derivatives: squeamishly adv. squeamishness n. Etymology: ME var. of squeamous (now dial.), f. AF escoymos, of unkn. orig …
59ẒAVA'AT RIBASH — ẒAVA AT RIBASH, ḥasidic work; full title, Ẓava at Ribash ve Hanhagot Yesharot ( The Testimony of Ribash (Rabbi Israel Ba al Shem) and Upright Rules of Conduct ), published in Zolkiew in 1793. (Another Zolkiew edition, which may be earlier, is… …
