fastidiously
Example Sentences
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As I turned to flee, my eyes scanned across the signed John Irving novels I had fastidiously collected since I fell in love with his writing as a young man, starting with “Garp.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
In 1943, British colonial administrators in Bengal fastidiously avoided the word, speaking euphemistically of “the India food question.”
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2024
Meier loves to "geek out" on new things and is therefore fastidiously making drinks inside the first of two coffee shops that he owns and runs with his wife in Girona.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
That Guerlain is a family-run house across five successive generations is perhaps one reason why these archival pieces have been so fastidiously kept.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Whereas at first I gutted fish and peeled their skin fastidiously, soon I no more than rinsed off their slimy slipperiness before biting into them, delighted to have such a treat between my teeth.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
