How to Use fastidious in a Sentence

fastidious

adjective

• She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.
• He is fastidious about keeping the house clean.
• Certain fastidious fans of fleece hold them up as some of the best hoodies in the world.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• The sounds were lovely, the playing fresh as well as fastidious.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• None of the waiting, none of the smell…even the most fastidious gardeners should hop off the composting fence.
  — Sunset Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
• The landscape alone, which includes the city of Jerusalem and a fastidious rendering of the Dome of the Rock, seems to stretch back forever.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• Trent, the way Rodriguez conveys him, is fastidious, well dressed and smarter than anyone else in the room.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 28 Dec. 2022
• Many, like Mathias Bengtsson, consider the tech to be just the first step in a long, fastidious process.
  — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2021
• While East African chimps have fastidious eating habits, their brethren to the west wolf their food like frat boys at a smorgasbord.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 June 1999
• Chavez cares for each of his charges with the fastidious attention a coach might apply to star athletes.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 3 Jan. 2017
• The costume, like the concert and the movie, moved deftly back and forth in Taylor time, in a spirit of fastidious reverence.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Young had always been fastidious, but now his hair and toenails had grown long.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2019
• People can’t make sense of why a fastidious man like Leonard would flee the capital of posh grooming.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• But if its weight starts to drop, its brain signals to release stress hormones that incite the fastidious hiding of seeds all over the cage.
  — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
• No matter the wait, no matter the tourists—fastidious New Yorkers wouldn’t get their smoked sable elsewhere.
  — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 6 May 2022
• The exterior logs of the cabin are the cladding and the structure, so the re-painting regimen must be fastidious.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• Two female detectives are thrown together to solve the case, one fastidious, the other a more rough and ready type from out of town.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2022
• Mount Everest has become something of a trash heap, as hordes of climbers have been less than fastidious in their ascents.
  — Kate Murphy, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• Plastic bags nestled in a heap at their feet, neat little parcels tied with fastidious knots.
  — Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
• The fastidious Hercule Poirot was her first detective hero, and though the character has been played by many actors, David Suchet owned him on the small screen.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• Even Thomas Keller, a famously fastidious cook, waxed nostalgic about the white-bean soup that his mother used to make.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• So is Cedric Young, here playing the undertaker West, a fastidious figure who profits from the death of Black men.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
• My daughters will also agree their mom is more fastidious than most.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
• As fashion trends have cycled in and out, Armani has maintained a fastidious commitment to his look—at times to a fault, in the opinion of some, when the tides of taste have ebbed away from his.
  — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2022
• In contrast, the French kitchen is an anally fastidious place, full of rules and regulations.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2020
• With fastidious gestures, Cohn seemed fully in control of the new and often complex scores.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• One of the girls is Mae; the other appears as a character named Shelley, who is prim, fastidious and, frankly, out of sync with her hip surroundings.
  — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
• Your mother, who was fastidious about keeping her home clean, now doesn’t notice the clutter.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
• Even before the pandemic, Ms. Tavares was fastidious about hygiene, keeping mounds of wipes and cleaning supplies in the house at all times.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• Being the fastidious performer Reubens was, it simply couldn’t be done to his standards on a regular basis with the kind of budget the station had to work with.
  — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Apr 2024