All 4 Uses
fastidious
in
The Iceman Cometh
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- He is dressed in threadbare black clothes and his white shirt is frayed at collar and cuffs, but everything about him is fastidiously clean.
Act 1 *fastidiously = showing an excessive concern for cleanliness
- He brushes his sleeve fastidiously.†
Act 1fastidiously = with careful attention to detail OR with excessive concern for cleanliness or matters of taste
- Soon you vill eat hot dogs beneath the villow trees and trink free vine—(abruptly in a haughty fastidious tone) The champagne vas not properly iced.†
Act 3
- I vill trink champagne beneath the villow—(with a change to aristocratic fastidiousness) But the slaves must ice it properly!†
Act 3
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)