Sample Sentences for
meticulous
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    a precise and meticulous job  (source)
    meticulous = requiring great care with details
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    With all of his being he tried to give each of them a piece of the memory: not of the tortured cry of the elephant, but of the being of the elephant, of the towering, immense creature and the meticulous touch with which it had tended its friend at the end.  (source)
    meticulous = careful
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    He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous...  (source)
    meticulous = careful in every detail
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    collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography  (source)
    meticulously = having treated details with great care
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    impeccable, careful, meticulous soldiers seemed to survive longer,  (source)
    meticulous = precise (treating details with attention)
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    ...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.
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    Outside, she would meticulously tend a small flower garden, which was the envy of the neighborhood.  (source)
    meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
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    My main concession to their regime was to grow a beard, which, frankly, spared me the meticulous task of a daily shave.  (source)
    meticulous = requiring care and attention to detail
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    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)
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    the Belgian's meticulously polished office in Elisabethville.  (source)
    meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
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    I turned back to the worm and made another cut and began to pin back the worm's flesh, taking meticulous notes.  (source)
    meticulous = carefully detailed (treating details with great care)
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    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)
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    all this had been rehearsed meticulously by Miss Geer  (source)
    meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
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