fastidiousness

Example Sentences

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The overwhelming public perception of OCD is that it is an obsession with cleaning, tidying and symmetry, a fastidiousness seen in characters like Monica Geller from Friends.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

That fastidiousness has not stopped the lexical war over his work in recent months, as judges across the country read opposite meanings into “rebellion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

Still, my radically different experience raises the question: By our obsessions and fastidiousness, are we engendering in our kids the very questions we are hellbent to prevent?

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022

The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

She found his fastidiousness and complete lack of humor touching and longed to introduce him to the idea of delight.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison