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Fastidious

adjective

Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness. "Fastidious about personal cleanliness"

Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures. Synonym: exacting. "Certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

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"Fastidious" Quotes from Famous Books

... driven to coin them. But in the character of Arabian story-teller he is simplicity itself, and whilst avoiding words of length, he introduces just enough of antique phrase as gives a bygone and poetic flavour. The most exacting and the most fastidious will be satisfied at the felicitous handling of immortal themes. A delightful characteristic is the division of the text into Nights. Lane and Payne, for peculiar reasons of their own, have both omitted to mark the ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... believe that Disston could be seriously interested in a woman of Kate Prentice's reputation and antecedents. Her daughter's account of her visit was equally gratifying, for Hugh Disston certainly was too fastidious to be attracted by a woman so uncouth of appearance and manner as portrayed in the vivid description the lady had received ...

— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

... children—perhaps because they had not yet grown quite away from the breast of the bounteous Mother—threw themselves face downward on her brown bosom with uncouth caresses, filling the air with their laughter; and how Miss Mary herself—felinely fastidious and intrenched as she was in the purity of spotless skirts, collar, and cuffs—forgot all, and ran like a crested quail at the head of her brood, until, romping, laughing, and panting, with a loosened braid of brown hair, ...

— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various

... see it! Indeed, no!" cried the girl, running across the porch and down the garden. She did not want any fastidious caution to suppress the fine things she had said, or cause the trouble of writing another letter. So she ran out of hearing of the entreaties of ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various

... were satisfied with flesh and blood women, if only put together in a way pleasing to your fastidious eyes." ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

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