All 3 Uses of
fastidious
in
Arrowsmith
- These notes he reproduced on the blackboard, in his fastidious script, murmuring, "Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but pondering upon it."
Chpt 4 *fastidious = giving careful attention to detail
- Dr. Tubbs was an earnest man, whiskered like a terrier, very scholarly, and perhaps the most powerful American exponent of cooperation in science, but he was also a man of the world, fastidious of boots and waistcoats.†
Chpt 26
- As tourists do when their minds have been broadened and enriched by travel, when they return to New Jersey or Wisconsin with the credit of having spent a whole six months in the West Indies and South America, the respectable remnant studied one another fastidiously, and noted the slim pale man who seemed so restless, who all day trudged round the deck, who after midnight was seen standing by himself at the rail.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(fastidious) giving careful attention to detail
or:
excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste