as in careful
hard to please
he is very fastidious about how he arranges his music collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it
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Recent Examples of fastidious
My friend Cedar is highly fastidious, but her vigilance ensures our clam bucatini is 100 percent sandless.
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Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Nov. 2024
No — your daughter is being overly fastidious, as daughters sometimes are.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
The labs of the Middle East have never been as fastidious as the Bulgarian ones were about copying captagon.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
And yet, Maria remains so fastidious with its main character, as well as the actor playing her, unwilling to admit that there might be something as pleasurable as there is tragic about the spectacle of an opera star tearing apart her dressing room in search of a few last Quaaludes.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Nov. 2024
No — your daughter is being overly fastidious, as daughters sometimes are.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
The labs of the Middle East have never been as fastidious as the Bulgarian ones were about copying captagon.
—Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
And yet, Maria remains so fastidious with its main character, as well as the actor playing her, unwilling to admit that there might be something as pleasurable as there is tragic about the spectacle of an opera star tearing apart her dressing room in search of a few last Quaaludes.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fastidious
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Identifying ground zero for the advent of Dengue Fever can be tricky, but careful research has identified Aquarius Records in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District as the primary origin of the infectiously melodic band.Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
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Going slowly and applying heat with a hair dryer can help reduce the risk of damage, but the difficulty of this process is a solid reason to be careful with your installation.Simon Hill, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2024
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Scharffen Berger 70% Cacao Bittersweet Dark Chocolate: A nice snap and melt here, but tasters said there was an acrid quality that gave it an unpleasant finish.Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024
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Two hundred of her closest family and friends made it on the nice list and were invited to her winter celebration.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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The skin loses some of that ability with age, however, leaving older adults at particular risk of vitamin D deficiency—a situation compounded by the fact that many seniors don't spend lots of time outside and may not eat many foods containing vitamin D, Mason says.Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
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The data showed that differences in how much people moved at work, in particular, was associated with either a better or worse 24-hour blood pressure reading.1 People who primarily remained seated at work had a lower—and therefore healthier—24-hour diastolic blood pressure.Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 17 Dec. 2024
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Honda is also working to reduce the indirect costs of production, including power consumption even though the necessary temperature of building as solid-state batteries are less finicky during production (and usage).Jake Lingeman, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
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Mauritian women, a renewable source of cheap labor, might be trained to do the finicky work of drilling holes into jewels for luxury watches.Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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By his fourth season, the team had a losing record and players were complaining that Bradley was too exacting.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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The painter’s attempts to capture reality — so exacting, so careful, so prepared — end in what looks like failure.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
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More than organic coffee variants, Balance Coffee focuses on meticulous sourcing, testing, as well as roasting.Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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The meticulous commitment to preserving the vintage vibe of A Christmas Story resonates.Annie Zaleski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Pryce plays the persnickety headmaster who prefers to keep politics outside the school walls.Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
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Kurkdjian’s policies as head of the department reflect both a persnickety attention to detail and an obsession with creative autonomy.Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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These items don’t just fit my very picky aesthetic, though — most are totally functional, too.Neha Tandon, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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However, the family is quickly learning Ryobi is a bit picky.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Fastidious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastidious. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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