All 3 Uses
fastidious
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Sula
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- Blasted and permanently astonished by the events of 1917, he had returned to Medallion handsome but ravaged, and even the most fastidious people in the town sometimes caught themselves dreaming of what he must have been like a few years back before he went off to war.†
Chpt 1919
- She liked the last place least, not because Sula slept in the room with her but because her love mate's tendency was always to fall asleep afterward and Hannah was fastidious about whom she slept with.†
Chpt 1921 *
- She had neither iron nor clothes but did not stop her fastidious lining up of pleats or pressing out of wrinkles even when she acknowledged Nel's greeting.†
Chpt 1965
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)