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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

... Academy soiree, where you meet people you thought were dead, and she vouchsafed the information, as if she owed it to me in candour, that Leolin had been obliged to recognise insuperable difficulties in the question of FORM, he was so fastidious; so that she had now arrived at a definite understanding with him (it was such a comfort) that SHE would do the form if he would bring home the substance. That was now his position—he foraged for her in the great world at a salary. "He's my 'devil,' don't you see? as if I were a great lawyer: ...

— Greville Fane • Henry James

... boldly produced, and, by preference, should be of local interest. As the doctor himself delighted in surprises of a terrifying or horrifying nature, it was unlikely that his inventions in that direction would be characterized by tameness. He would not, when hard pressed on a dull day, allow a fastidious care of even his own reputation to impede the development of one of his surprises. If the town of Bellevue was to stagnate mentally, it would not be the fault of George F. Castleton, ...

— A Strange Discovery • Charles Romyn Dake

... much smaller than the chamber assigned him, and he does not object to having half a dozen room mates. The bed is a wretched cot, but it is better than a bunk or a hammock, and Jack is not so used to cleanliness as to make him very fastidious. ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... of our search that would have been quite sufficient to have deterred us from looking at it, but we could not now afford to be fastidious. Our own house was let, and move from it we must in less than a fortnight; so we desired the driver to take us into this bad neighborhood, and were rewarded for the additional distance we travelled by ...

— Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it • Miss Coulton

... You, fastidious {critic}, who carp at my writings, and disdain to read trifles of this kind, endure with some small patience this little book, while I smooth down the severity of your brow, and Aesop comes forward in a ...

— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus

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