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The Nickel Boys
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- He was meticulous about his black serving uniform, and maintained that he was always the best-dressed man in the dining room, putting the white patrons to shame.†
p. 15.7
- The campus was kept up meticulously, a bounty of lush green dotted with two —and three-story buildings of red brick.†
p. 47.6 *meticulously = in a manner treating details with great care
- Correcting the artistic errors of previous, less meticulous boys and refurbing the old workhorses.†
p. 116.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(meticulous) treating details with great care
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)