choosy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++choos·y, choosey /ˈtʃuːzi/ adjective informal ARGUEsomeone who is choosy will only accept things that they like a lot or they consider to be very good 挑剔的，过于讲究的choosy about She’s very choosy about clothes. 她对衣服十分讲究。

Examples from the Corpus

choosy• I get offered a lot of work now, so I can be more choosy.• To do him justice he's not choosy.• Salmon are choosy about the conditions they live in.• She's very choosy about what airline she travels on.• Others, however, are cutting back the number of films they make and are more choosy about what they finance.• These days, the Marine Corps is very choosy about who joins.• There is not normally any corresponding selection on males to be choosy about who they mate with.• But it is a means to more power, which in turn enables you to be choosy about your scripts.• Far from being choosy, female primates seemed to be initiators of much promiscuity.• She wanted men to believe that she was choosy, not that she had never chosen.• Truly promiscuous opportunists would not be too choosy, one would think.

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, choosey /ˈtʃuːzi/ adjective informal
someone who is choosy will only accept things that they like a lot or they consider to be very good
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