All 5 Uses of
fastidious
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilet.†
Chpt 39-40
- And, indeed, it required but one glance at Mademoiselle Danglars to comprehend the justness of Morcerf's remark—she was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression…†
Chpt 53-54
- As regarded her attainments, the only fault to be found with them was the same that a fastidious connoisseur might have found with her beauty, that they were somewhat too erudite and masculine for so young a person.†
Chpt 53-54
- "You are fastidious, Chateau-Renaud," replied Debray; "those clothes are well cut and quite new."†
Chpt 61-62
- 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.
Chpt 85-86 *fastidious = concerned with matters of good taste
Definition:
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(fastidious) giving careful attention to detail
or:
excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste