letter-perfect
Americanadjective
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knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
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precise or exact in every detail; verbatim.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of letter-perfect
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Contestants strive to be letter-perfect in this Tony-winning musical comedy.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2017
Even Mr. Trump is not sure he can be letter-perfect.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016
Which is perplexing, because “The Americans” is an empirically letter-perfect prestige drama.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2015
And that’s what he did, performing a near letter-perfect cover of Eddie Cochran’s fast-moving mouthful -“Twenty Flight Rock,” to the astonishment of Lennon and his bandmates.
From Time • Jun. 18, 2012
All day long I did nothing but weep, and between my crying spells I recited the Latin verses, in which I was now letter-perfect, together with the preceding and following ones.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
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