fastidious
adjective
excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please.
fastidiously
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a word derived from
fastidious.
Example Sentences
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I’m starting to forget where I left the house key, my iPhone or the ⅜-inch Craftsman ratchet wrench—unless I stick to my rule of fastidiously putting everything in its place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Today a typical house in Jacobs’ home turf, the fastidiously preserved West Village, sells for more than $10 million.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024
Meier loves to "geek out" on new things and is therefore fastidiously making drinks inside the first of two coffee shops that he owns and runs with his wife in Girona.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
For most tech titans, this would be a “well, duh” situation, but Altman has fastidiously cultivated an aura of a burdened guru warning the world of great disruptive changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Whatever misgivings he’d previously had about them seemed to have been abandoned, because he was fastidiously studying Nkrumah’s journal while two little girls decorated his curly hair with flowers.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
