All 15 Uses
fastidious
in
The Fountainhead
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- He wrinkled his nose fastidiously, in self-mockery.†
Chpt 1.3fastidiously = with careful attention to detail OR with excessive concern for cleanliness or matters of taste
- It had a fastidious jacket of midnight blue with plain silver letters and a silver pyramid in one corner.†
Chpt 1.6
- He had no distaste for modern architecture and built cheerfully, when a rare client asked for it, bare boxes with flat roofs, which he called progressive; he built Roman mansions which he called fastidious; he built Gothic churches which he called spiritual.†
Chpt 1.9
- Her dress—the color of water, a pale green-blue, too simple and expensive, its pleats exact like edges of glass—her thin heels planted wide apart on the boulders, the smooth helmet of her hair, the exaggerated fragility of her body against the sky—flaunted the fastidious coolness of the gardens and drawing rooms from which she came.†
Chpt 2.1
- She watched the air of fastidious elegance around her.†
Chpt 2.2
- There was such a vast understanding in Toohey's eyes and such an unfastidious kindness—no, what a word to think of—such an unlimited kindness.†
Chpt 2.3unfastidious = 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.
- Francon asked Keating in the rose-lit satin-stuffed rooms of the A.G.A., wrinkling his nose with fastidious amusement.†
Chpt 2.8
- But the staff of the Banner was as unfastidious as its policy.†
Chpt 2.9unfastidious = 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.
- He thought that things like this could not be done in such a place; the fastidious magnificence made it monstrous; he wished it were a dank cellar.†
Chpt 3.3
- The terror came from that plate, not from the fastidious monster across the table; the rest of the room was warm and safe.†
Chpt 3.3
- This was just like Toohey, thought Keating; this pose amidst the severe fastidiousness of his living room; a single canvas by a famous artist on the wall behind him—and the rest of the room unobtrusive like a monk's cell; no, thought Keating, like the retreat of a king in exile, scornful of material display.†
Chpt 4.7
- Wynand wrinkled his nose fastidiously.†
Chpt 4.9fastidiously = with careful attention to detail OR with excessive concern for cleanliness or matters of taste
- It was not a positive stand rationally taken; not defiance in the name of a cause of importance; just a fastidious feeling, something pertaining almost to chastity: the hesitation one feels before putting one's foot down into muck.†
Chpt 4.9
- respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others— —said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return— —said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people— —said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything and permitted them everything— —said every second-hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.†
Chpt 4.13unfastidious = 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.
- He looked like a drawing from a men's magazine, fastidiously groomed, a white handkerchief in the breast pocket of his dark suit.
Chpt 4.16 *fastidiously = with careful attention to detail
Definitions:
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(1)
(fastidious) giving careful attention to detail
or:
excessively concerned with cleanliness or matters of taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)