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Fine-toothed   /faɪn-tuθt/   Listen
Fine-toothed

adjective
1.
Having fine teeth set close together.  Synonym: fine-tooth.



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"Fine-toothed" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning, Mr. Dulac," she said, bitterly, "and her as good a typewriter and as neat and faithful as any. No fault found, either, nor could be, not if anybody was looking for it with a fine-tooth comb. Meanness, that's what I say. Nothing but meanness.... And us needing that fifteen dollars a week to keep the breath of ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

... practical work of one man who accepted the responsibility of being his brother's keeper appealed to us. In a store near the hotel we see a Cree boatman purchasing a farewell present for his sweetheart. As he turns over the fancy articles, we have bad form enough to observe his choice. He selects a fine-tooth comb, for which he pays fifty cents, or as he calls it, "two skins," and asks, as he tucks it into his jerkin, if he can change it "if she doesn't ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron



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