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She is fastidious in her work.fastidious = careful and attentive to detail
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They are an odd couple. One is a slob, and the other fastidious.fastidious = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
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She is fastidious about personal cleanliness.fastidious = very concerned
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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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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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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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he had already seen how fastidious Annie was about locking her doors. (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 tastestandard 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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Whereas at first I gutted fish and peeled their skin fastidiously, soon I no more than rinsed off their slimy slipperiness before biting into them, (source)fastidiously = with excessive concern for cleanliness or matters of taste
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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)unfastidious = without careful attention to detail OR not concerned with cleanliness or matters of tastestandard 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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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... (source)fastidious = careful about details
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No one ever saw her without the defensive shield of grooming, but she knew what was beneath the fastidiousness and gloss. (source)fastidiousness = excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
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One was wearing a soccer uniform, shirt neatly tucked in, socks pulled up to her knees, in the fashion of a peewee soccer player who had been fastidiously dressed by her mother. (source)fastidiously = with 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)unfastidious = without careful attention to detail OR not concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste
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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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Marriage, children—all had been sacrificed to the Great Agony and her home was a tribute to the fastidiousness of her dedication (and the generosity of her father's will). (source)fastidiousness = tendency to give careful attention to detail or matters of taste
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