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hard-to-please

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adj.1.Requiring great patience and effort and skill; demanding; - of persons. Opposite of undemanding.
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Adj.1.hard-to-please - (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please"
hard to please
demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"


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