selectiveness

Example Sentences

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“He’s handled himself well. Really like his selectiveness the last couple games,” Showalter said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022

The selectiveness also lends status: the attuned eye immediately recognizes a Farrow & Ball red such as Incarnadine or Blazer.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

The degree of selectiveness that immigration law imposes has varied highly from group to group.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2014

But food-truck operators pointed to a host of supermarket, restaurant and other trucks not receiving the same scrutiny — including the support vehicles that tow street carts — in criticizing the bill’s selectiveness.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2010

He may exercise the like unscrutable selectiveness upon the seed of Israel to-day.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles