as in careful
hard to please
he is very fastidious about how he arranges his music collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it
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Recent Examples of fastidious
No — your daughter is being overly fastidious, as daughters sometimes are.
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Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
The labs of the Middle East have never been as fastidious as the Bulgarian ones were about copying captagon.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
And yet, Maria remains so fastidious with its main character, as well as the actor playing her, unwilling to admit that there might be something as pleasurable as there is tragic about the spectacle of an opera star tearing apart her dressing room in search of a few last Quaaludes.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
Hidden behind these very recognisable visual stylings, however, is Burton’s fastidious world building.
—Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
The labs of the Middle East have never been as fastidious as the Bulgarian ones were about copying captagon.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
And yet, Maria remains so fastidious with its main character, as well as the actor playing her, unwilling to admit that there might be something as pleasurable as there is tragic about the spectacle of an opera star tearing apart her dressing room in search of a few last Quaaludes.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
Hidden behind these very recognisable visual stylings, however, is Burton’s fastidious world building.
—Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for fastidious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fastidious
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After that, Buckley seemed more careful about positioning, doing his best to keep the action in the open while not allowing Covington to close in and work from the clinch.Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Behind, kids are hoisted — careful with that hot chocolate!Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
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Scharffen Berger 70% Cacao Bittersweet Dark Chocolate: A nice snap and melt here, but tasters said there was an acrid quality that gave it an unpleasant finish.Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024
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It's made of recycled plastic bottles, and its straps have a nice rubbery grip to keep it on your shoulders.Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
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The bones used are those of cattle—in particular, metacarpals and metatarsals, which are found in the lower limbs.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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Why should Californians care about this particular instance?Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Honda is also working to reduce the indirect costs of production, including power consumption even though the necessary temperature of building as solid-state batteries are less finicky during production (and usage).Jake Lingeman, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
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Mauritian women, a renewable source of cheap labor, might be trained to do the finicky work of drilling holes into jewels for luxury watches.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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The painter’s attempts to capture reality — so exacting, so careful, so prepared — end in what looks like failure.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
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The French have the historical edge, at least of topiary in its most exacting forms, with the grand formal gardens at the Palace of Versailles and swaths of rounded, bubbling topiary at the gardens of Marqueyssac.Sophie Elmhirst, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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The film centers on Max (Moreland), the owner of a Seattle dog shelter who falls for a ‘meticulous webpage editor’ named Mia (Jessica Lowndes).Anne Easton, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The movie is constructed like a visual scrap quilt made in a meticulous and orderly fashion, sometimes focusing on Elwood's life in the '60s and other times flashing forward to the near-present day.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Pryce plays the persnickety headmaster who prefers to keep politics outside the school walls.Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
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Kurkdjian’s policies as head of the department reflect both a persnickety attention to detail and an obsession with creative autonomy.Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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These items don’t just fit my very picky aesthetic, though — most are totally functional, too.Neha Tandon, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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However, the family is quickly learning Ryobi is a bit picky.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Fastidious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastidious. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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