fastidious

Example Sentences

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But like her previous partners, he was arrogant and controlling—“yet another man who was fastidious and grumpy,” Ms. Meltzer writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 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

The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

Ash was fastidious about maintaining a treatment diary.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

He was a fastidious, precise man who ordinarily taught math but had been filling in for the regular art teacher.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier