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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

... of such great parts and extensive learning, with such fine thoughts, beautiful sentiments and wise reflections;—such a cool, abstracted philosopher, yet such an over-refined politician;—such a gloomy moralist, yet such an acute, fastidious observer of men and manners, was a cloistered monk or any obscure individual whatever was an idea to be immediately dispelled from the mind, for that the Annals was composed by such a man would have been about as incomprehensible an occurrence, as it ...

— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross

... part of David's inheritance, his mother's family homestead. Things were all on a grand scale for a bride. Most brides began in a very simple way and climbed up year by year. How Kate would have liked it all! David must have had in mind her fastidious tastes, and spent a great deal of money in trying to please her. That piano must have been very expensive. Once more Marcia felt how David had loved Kate and a pang went through her as she wondered however he was to live without ...

— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... man whom Fate suddenly swings from his fastidious life into the power of the brutal captain of a sealing schooner. A novel of adventure warmed by a beautiful love episode that every reader will ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

... that this prejudice of taste has been suffered to rule in this way in no profession but that of the ministry. The most fastidious taste never carries a written speech to the bar or into the senate. The very man who dares not ascend the pulpit without a sermon diligently arranged, and filled out to the smallest word, if he had gone into the profession ...

— Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching • Henry Ware

... suspecting the gravity of his condition. Not until the third day, when, upon waking in the morning, he saw a slender thread of blood that had flowed from his mouth over his beard and reddened his pillow, did that refined dandy shudder, that fastidious creature who held in horror all forms of human misery, especially disease, and who saw it creeping upon him stealthily with its defilement, its weaknesses and with the self-abandonment which is the first concession to death. Monpavon, entering the ...

— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

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