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meticulous
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  • I place my feet carefully, block out the rest of the world as I take meticulous aim. The first arrow tears through the side of the bag near the top, leaving a split in the burlap.  (source)
    meticulous = precise (careful in every detail)
  • collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography  (source)
    meticulously = having treated details with great care
  • Despite Teabing's insistence that their investigation should be conducted meticulously, Sophie felt eager and pushed ahead of them,  (source)
    meticulously = carefully with great attention to detail
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  • a precise and meticulous job  (source)
    meticulous = requiring great care with details
  • Everything he would wear was meticulously arranged,  (source)
    meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
  • ...and with my clumsy, nervous meticulousness I laid it across a chair, as though it might break.  (source)
    meticulousness = treatment of details with great care
    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.
  • He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous...  (source)
    meticulous = careful in every detail
  • the Belgian's meticulously polished office in Elisabethville.  (source)
    meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
  • There were people who disapproved of his meticulousness, saying that the local Deviation-rate, which had shown a steady overall improvement and now stood at half what it had been in my grandfather's time, would have been better still, but for my father.†  (source)
  • She made a meticulous list of what I'd carried and worn.  (source)
    meticulous = carefully detailed
  • the meticulously amassed evidence of barbarity  (source)
    meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
  • Don't you smell it too, a fragrance given off by the odor of floor polish and a faint whiff of turpentine together with the mahogany and the washed leaves of the plants—the very essence of bourgeois cleanliness, of neatness and meticulousness, of duty and devotion shown in little things.†  (source)
  • Nathaniel's clothes are neater and cleaner this time, his grooming more meticulous.  (source)
    meticulous = treating details with care
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