All 7 Uses
fastidious
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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- You're too fastidious, and too indolent, and too rich.†
Chpt 1
- Altogether, with her meagre knowledge, her inflated ideals, her confidence at once innocent and dogmatic, her temper at once exacting and indulgent, her mixture of curiosity and fastidiousness, of vivacity and indifference, her desire to look very well and to be if possible even better, her determination to see, to try, to know, her combination of the delicate, desultory, flame-like spirit and the eager and personal creature of conditions: she would be an easy victim of scientific criticism if she were not intended to awaken on the reader's part an impulse more tender and more purely expectant.†
Chpt 6
- It may appear to some readers that the young lady was both precipitate and unduly fastidious; but the latter of these facts, if the charge be true, may serve to exonerate her from the discredit of the former.†
Chpt 12 *
- You're too fastidious; you've too many graceful illusions.†
Chpt 20
- For all I do know he may be a prince in disguise; he rather looks like one, by the way—like a prince who has abdicated in a fit of fastidiousness and has been in a state of disgust ever since.†
Chpt 23
- He was certainly fastidious and critical; he was probably irritable.†
Chpt 24
- I was simply the most fastidious young gentleman living.†
Chpt 24
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)