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"quisquillosa" in English

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"quisquillosa" in English
quisquillosa{adjective feminine}
fastidious
quisquillosa{adjective}
tetchy
quisquilloso{adjective masculine}
captious- fastidious- finical- finicky
quisquilloso{adjective}
picky- fractious- fussy- huffy- irritable- nitpicking- prickly- spiky- touchy
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TRANSLATIONS & EXAMPLES
quisquillosa{adjective feminine}
quisquillosa(also: fastidiosa, fastidioso, quisquilloso, melindroso)
fastidious{adj.}
era quisquillosa hasta el aburrimiento
she was tiresomely fastidious
quisquillosa{adjective}
quisquillosa(also: irritable, enojadiza, enojadizo, enojón)
tetchy{adj.}
quisquilloso{adjective masculine}
quisquilloso(also: criticón)
captious{adj.}
quisquilloso(also: fastidiosa, fastidioso, melindroso, escrupuloso)
fastidious{adj.}
Es nuestro deber ser quisquillosos y mirar con lupa lo que hace la Comisión y las demás instituciones.
It is our duty to be fastidious, and to pay attention to what the Commission and the other institutions do.
quisquilloso(also: melindroso)
finical{adj.}
quisquilloso(also: melindroso, minucioso, meticuloso)
finicky{adj.}
quisquilloso{adjective}
quisquilloso(also: criticón, exigente, melindroso, tiquismiquis)
picky{adj.}
quisquilloso(also: quejumbroso)
fractious{adj.} (irritable)
quisquilloso(also: exigente)
fussy{adj.} (fastidious)
quisquilloso(also: susceptible)
huffy{adj.} (touchy)
quisquilloso(also: irritado)
irritable{adj.} (bad-tempered)
quisquilloso(also: faramallero, chinche, juzgón)
nitpicking{adj.}
La Izquierda se ha mostrado rígida y obstruccionista, ha reducido el debate a un ejercicio quisquilloso de Derecho comparado, negociando entre normas nacionales.
The left has been rigid and obstructive, reducing the debate to a nitpicking exercise of comparative law, bargaining between national rules.
Votar por las enmiendas habría supuesto refrendar la legislación vigente de la Unión (que también rechazamos) y un ejercicio quisquilloso para decidir qué partes son peores que otras.
To vote on the amendments would have entailed endorsing existing EU legislation (which we don't want either) and a nit-picking exercise in order to decide which bits were worse than others.
quisquilloso(also: irritable, difícil)
prickly{adj.} (person)
quisquilloso(also: susceptible, puntudo)
spiky{adj.} [Brit.] [coll.] (touchy)
quisquilloso(also: delicado, delicada, enojón, enojona)
touchy{adj.}

SYNONYMS
Synonyms (Spanish) for "quisquilloso":
quisquilloso
cascarrabias- chinche- cominero- estricto- exigente- intolerante- puntilloso- quisquilla- riguroso- severo
CONTEXT EXAMPLES
Context examples for "quisquillosa" in English(!) These sentences come from external sources & may not be accurate. Therefore, we are not responsible for their content.
La interferencia quisquillosa de los legisladores en los modos y maneras sólo sirve para agotar a las organizaciones en cuestión.
The legislator's pernickety interference in the ways and means only serves to exhaust the organisations in question.
era quisquillosa hasta el aburrimiento
she was tiresomely fastidious
se está volviendo muy quisquillosa
she's getting very fussy
Los productores de estos países y otros del Nuevo Mundo no están sometidos a una burocracia quisquillosa que les marca qué uvas cultivar dónde y luego cómo hacer los vinos.
Producers in these and other New World countries are not bound by pettifogging bureaucracy that tells them which grapes to grow where and then how to make the wines.

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