How to Use fastidious in a Sentence

fastidious

adjective
  • She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.
  • He is fastidious about keeping the house clean.
  • Certain fastidious fans of fleece hold them up as some of the best hoodies in the world.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • The hike to the top is a short but fastidious one with the most incredible views.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Mildew and musty smells can occur in clothes in even the most fastidious of households.
    Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The sounds were lovely, the playing fresh as well as fastidious.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • None of the waiting, none of the smell…even the most fastidious gardeners should hop off the composting fence.
    Sunset Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The landscape alone, which includes the city of Jerusalem and a fastidious rendering of the Dome of the Rock, seems to stretch back forever.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Trent, the way Rodriguez conveys him, is fastidious, well dressed and smarter than anyone else in the room.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Many, like Mathias Bengtsson, consider the tech to be just the first step in a long, fastidious process.
    Helena Madden, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2021
  • While East African chimps have fastidious eating habits, their brethren to the west wolf their food like frat boys at a smorgasbord.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 June 1999
  • Chavez cares for each of his charges with the fastidious attention a coach might apply to star athletes.
    Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 3 Jan. 2017
  • The costume, like the concert and the movie, moved deftly back and forth in Taylor time, in a spirit of fastidious reverence.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Young had always been fastidious, but now his hair and toenails had grown long.
    Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2019
  • People can’t make sense of why a fastidious man like Leonard would flee the capital of posh grooming.
    Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But if its weight starts to drop, its brain signals to release stress hormones that incite the fastidious hiding of seeds all over the cage.
    Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • No matter the wait, no matter the tourists—fastidious New Yorkers wouldn’t get their smoked sable elsewhere.
    Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 6 May 2022
  • The exterior logs of the cabin are the cladding and the structure, so the re-painting regimen must be fastidious.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Two female detectives are thrown together to solve the case, one fastidious, the other a more rough and ready type from out of town.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Mount Everest has become something of a trash heap, as hordes of climbers have been less than fastidious in their ascents.
    Kate Murphy, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Plastic bags nestled in a heap at their feet, neat little parcels tied with fastidious knots.
    Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The fastidious Hercule Poirot was her first detective hero, and though the character has been played by many actors, David Suchet owned him on the small screen.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • This may be because cats are fastidious groomers and may remove ticks from their fur before the ticks have a chance to transmit the bacterium.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024
  • Even Thomas Keller, a famously fastidious cook, waxed nostalgic about the white-bean soup that his mother used to make.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • So is Cedric Young, here playing the undertaker West, a fastidious figure who profits from the death of Black men.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • My daughters will also agree their mom is more fastidious than most.
    Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
  • As fashion trends have cycled in and out, Armani has maintained a fastidious commitment to his look—at times to a fault, in the opinion of some, when the tides of taste have ebbed away from his.
    Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2022
  • In contrast, the French kitchen is an anally fastidious place, full of rules and regulations.
    Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2020
  • With fastidious gestures, Cohn seemed fully in control of the new and often complex scores.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

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