fastidious
Example Sentences
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Go see this master of gripping narratives, fastidious painting technique and extravagant propaganda while you can.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
It’s as fastidious as a desk clerk, with everything gridded and in shades of greige.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025
But it narrows some of the fastidious distancing that there's been between what had happened at the shut down News of the World and the Sun.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025
As Ruggero, he traced fastidious lines through the full length of Puccini’s lavish melodies, holding them taut before releasing them, and artfully negotiated his registers.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024
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.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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