Sample sentences for FASTIDIOUS

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Definition

giving careful attention to detail

or:

excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste

She is fastidious in her work.

fastidious = careful and attentive to detail

They are an odd couple. One is a slob, and the other fastidious.

fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste

She is fastidious about personal cleanliness.

fastidious = very concerned

Her father had been a fastidious man, impeccable, close-shaven, with razor-sharp creases pressed into his trousers.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste

Compared with the chaos of Cherry Hill, Northwood was a paradise of neat houses with fastidiously maintained lawns.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

fastidiously = in a manner showing careful attention to detail

No one ever saw her without the defensive shield of grooming, but she knew what was beneath the fastidiousness and gloss.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

fastidiousness = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

He knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light-to-heavy precipitation because that would rob the police of evidence. But he was not as fastidious as the police liked to think. He forgot...
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

fastidious = careful about details

he had already seen how fastidious Annie was about locking her doors.
Stephen King -- Misery

fastidious = giving careful attention to detail

He looked like a drawing from a men's magazine, fastidiously groomed, a white handkerchief in the breast pocket of his dark suit.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

fastidiously = with careful attention to detail

Your bed is neatly made—you have always been fastidious.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

fastidious = careful about detail; or excessively concerned with things like housekeeping

Both, for example, were fastidious, very attentive to hygiene and the condition of their fingernails.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood

fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness

Xavier himself had a near-monopoly on fastidiousness in Lonesome Dove.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

fastidiousness = excessive concern with cleanliness or matters of taste

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

He is fastidious about his clothing; their first argument had been over a sweater she'd shrunk in the washing machine.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

fastidious = giving careful attention to detail

How was it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made this error of a day?
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days

fastidious = giving careful attention to detail

The workmanship was no less fastidious...
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

fastidious = with great care to detail

Tjaden has become so fastidious that he only half smokes his cigars.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

fastidious = excessively concerned with little things

At the head of the bed there was a niche in the wall where, fastidiously tidy, stood a candle, a bottle of ink, and a pen with a bundle of papers
Franz Kafka -- The Trial

fastidiously = with careful attention to detail

She had broken up Jane Austen's sentence, and thus given me no chance of pluming myself upon my impeccable taste, my fastidious ear.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

fastidious = tasteful and detail-noticing

It was evident, from her figure and the perfumes she had about her, that she was young and fastidious in her tastes, but that was all.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

fastidious = concerned with matters of good taste

There were still waterbirds taking their fastidious little steps in the saltwater, where mossy trees dipped down as if to drink.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

fastidious = giving careful attention to detail

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