Sample Sentences for
fastidious
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    There were still waterbirds taking their fastidious little steps in the saltwater, where mossy trees dipped down as if to drink.  (source)
    fastidious = giving careful attention to detail
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    All his life, Louie had been fastidious about cleanliness, so much so that in college he had kept Listerine in his car's glove compartment so he could rinse his mouth after kissing girls.  (source)
    fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness
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    Then he dried his steel-rimmed glasses on a towel and, because he was fastidious, got his surgical gown on.  (source)
    fastidious = giving careful attention to detail; or excessively concerned with cleanliness
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    If the name of Hall's business, Adventure Consultants, mirrored his methodical, fastidious approach to climbing, style, Mountain Madness was an even more accurate reflection of Scott's personal style.  (source)
    fastidious = giving careful attention to detail
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    Xavier himself had a near-monopoly on fastidiousness in Lonesome Dove.  (source)
    fastidiousness = excessive concern with cleanliness or matters of taste
    standard suffix: 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.
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    Compared with the chaos of Cherry Hill, Northwood was a paradise of neat houses with fastidiously maintained lawns.  (source)
    fastidiously = in a manner showing careful attention to detail
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    And when Hightower approaches, the smell of plump unwashed flesh and unfresh clothing—that odor of unfastidious sedentation, of static overflesh not often enough bathed—is well nigh overpowering.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfastidious means not and reverses the meaning of fastidious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    So fastidious and stern was she when he was arranging for the rooms, that he'd found it embarrassing to ask whether washing was included. Her manner had implied that she was not in the habit of discussing the state of men's personal items with them, such painful matters being best left to the servants.  (source)
    fastidious = excessively concerned with matters of taste
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    He swiftly lost the fastidiousness which had characterized his old life.  (source)
    fastidiousness = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
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    She stood there, fastidiously groomed, wearing a...  (source)
    fastidiously = giving careful attention to detail
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    so silly—so satisfied—so smiling—so prosing—so undistinguishing and unfastidious—and so apt to tell every thing relative to every body about me, I would marry to-morrow.†  (source)
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    Tjaden has become so fastidious that he only half smokes his cigars.  (source)
    fastidious = excessively concerned with little things
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    Mrs. Linton eyed him with a droll expression — half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness.  (source)
    fastidiousness = excessive concern with what is proper
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