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

And its fastidious standards of excellence have never wavered.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 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

Ash was fastidious about maintaining a treatment diary.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

When he was enraged by some human effort or flaw, he was able to regard himself as discriminating, fastidious, and full of nice scruples.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison