pernicketiness BrE
persnicketiness AmE

Only at the very end, and in excruciatingly small type is there an acknowledgment of the persnicketiness of the dirty big job.

Still, there was a question of whether the magazine's position was a stance against property theft or a bit of red-faced persnicketiness.

Implying, perhaps, that my persnicketiness has denied my team the full attention of the Lord of the Spooks?

But nothing I experienced then can match the grammatical persnicketiness in this grouchy book, "Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right."

Where prints were concerned, Turner, who was known as much for his unintelligible lectures at the Royal Academy as for his taciturnity in general conversation, could be demanding to the point of persnicketiness and not a little garrulous.