fastidious

Example Sentences

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If there is a consistency to his work, it is that of cool, fastidious stylishness, in which the particulars of site, client and program were the dominant factors, and not the personality of the architect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

But it narrows some of the fastidious distancing that there's been between what had happened at the shut down News of the World and the Sun.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

Pairing with Snoop helped put the fastidious chef and crafter in front of a younger, hipper audience, while the grandmotherly Stewart assisted in making the rapper approachable for a wider range of consumers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

As Ruggero, he traced fastidious lines through the full length of Puccini’s lavish melodies, holding them taut before releasing them, and artfully negotiated his registers.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024

He was fastidious about his fine black suit and stovepipe hat, extracting lint from the fabric and glaring at it as if it were a poison spider before flicking it.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead