high-maintenance

1. Require (ing) a lot of work/attention to maintain.

2. Require (ing) a lot of money or attention to appearance.

3. Require (ing) a high emotional investment or en excessive amount of money.

EXAMPLES OF HIGH-MAINTENANCE BEHAVIOR:
-Having frequent professional cosmetic consultations, such as hair-dressing, manicures and pedicures
-Excessive worthless spending (tricking)
-Attention craving
-Being too delicate or suavé

NOTE: high-maintenance is primarily used to refer to attractive straight women or a person/people that's stuck on self.

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high maintenance

Requiring a lot of attention. When describing a person, high-maintenance usually means that the individual is emotionally needy or prone to over-dramatizing a situation to gain attention

Although he was a nice boy, his low self-esteem made him high-maintenance.

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high maintenence

1.A female that requires more than average hair/nail/pedicuire/skin care services, the latest trends, name brand clothes/shoes and handbags, and lots of attention.

2.A female who requires her man to have an expensive car, expensive house, a good paying job, and lots of money.

1.She go to the hair salon 4 times a week.She is a high maintenence person.

2.Jasmine put James in the poor house. She is a high maintenence broad.

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high maintenance

A person who has expensive taste (re. clothing, restaurants, etc.).
This person is never comfortable because he/she is constantly concerned about his/her appearance.
This person feels they are better than most people and usually judge others based on outward appearances.

I am not high maintenance

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high maintenance

1. Requiring much time and many products to keep their appearance at the current level. 2. And/or requiring much attention from others in relationships, romantic or otherwise.

1. I know I'm high maintenance, said the beauty queen.
2. Anne was a high maintenance employee, with her nearly daily requests for time-off or time-shifting.

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high maintenance

having expensive taste and multiple costly needs frequently.

The teenage girl had to have the expensive, name-brand shoes instead of the cheaper ones that were just as good.

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High Maintenance

A gluttonous queen, narcissistic and mean.

She's so high maintenance, I can't stand being around her anymore.

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