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
The exhaustingly prolific Kidman stars as a fastidious suburban teacher/wife/mom who suspects her optometrist hubby (Macfadyen) is hiding something from her and enlists the help of a cute high school shop teacher (Bernal) to expose those secrets in the very strange town of Holland, Michigan.
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
The girls are both members of the school’s choir, a traditionalist institution overseen with fastidious strictness by conductor Bojan (Saša Tabaković), whose preferred repertoire of dusty hymns and local folk songs gives the girls a collective air of ethereal purity when singing.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
The fastidious, precociously mature character served as a comedic foil to his feistier mother as well as the rest of the show’s broader Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
—John Russell, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Many of us are incredible about taking care of others, but perhaps less fastidious about attending to our own needs.
—Lori B Daniels, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
The girls are both members of the school’s choir, a traditionalist institution overseen with fastidious strictness by conductor Bojan (Saša Tabaković), whose preferred repertoire of dusty hymns and local folk songs gives the girls a collective air of ethereal purity when singing.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
The fastidious, precociously mature character served as a comedic foil to his feistier mother as well as the rest of the show’s broader Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
—John Russell, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Many of us are incredible about taking care of others, but perhaps less fastidious about attending to our own needs.
—Lori B Daniels, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fastidious
Adjective
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While the latest inflation and jobs market reports showed that any disruption caused by tariffs has so far been minor, the Fed is clearly being careful about what could happen in the coming weeks and months.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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However, be careful of blurring the distinction between professional and personal relationships.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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Nevertheless, nice to get an explanation for why Vondrousova has been invisible.—
James Hansen,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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Every single crewmember, everyone who worked on the show, along with the actors, every person on this show was so hard-working and dedicated and so genuinely nice.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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All three platforms can cite one particular business for helping drive recent success: financial services.—
Lionel Lim,
Fortune,
22 June 2025
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Advertisement In particular, support for neighboring Ukraine and its European aspirations will face new hurdles.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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But momentum — a finicky word this time of year — swung massively in their favour in the third period of Game 4.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Star Wars fans can be a finicky bunch, but Tony Gilroy has been fearless, much like the series creator George Lucas, in delivering to them.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the more exacting standard raises questions about whether Tennessee’s law would survive.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
18 June 2025
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All told, the specifics of memory and storage drive home that the Mac mini is far more suitable to mainstream users, while the Mac Studio is for a more exacting, professional market that needs those expensive, lofty levels of RAM and storage.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Later, as the way opened, Swedish producers and artists, from Denniz Pop to Max Martin, would follow, bringing glossy, meticulous pop to the global marketplace.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
18 June 2025
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Once home to Louis XV’s architect, the property underwent a meticulous four-year renovation before reopening to what is now one of the most luxurious properties in the city.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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But Wilson is in his comfort zone as ever with Anderson, playing Francis’s persnickety dedication to the trip’s itinerary with his typical generosity.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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What would the notoriously persnickety Corbitt say about those bold additions?—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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Cherry laurel isn't super picky and will tolerate dry, poor, and alkaline soils, salt, as well as heavy pruning.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
10 June 2025
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For younger children or more picky eaters, start with something simple and approachable, like steaming edamame (young soybeans) or adding black beans to a cheesy quesadilla.—
Dr. Kelly Fradin,
CNBC,
20 May 2025
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“Fastidious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastidious. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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