How to Use fastidious in a Sentence

fastidious

adjective

• She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.
• He is fastidious about keeping the house clean.
• Certain fastidious fans of fleece hold them up as some of the best hoodies in the world.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• The sounds were lovely, the playing fresh as well as fastidious.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
• Chavez cares for each of his charges with the fastidious attention a coach might apply to star athletes.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 3 Jan. 2017
• None of the waiting, none of the smell…even the most fastidious gardeners should hop off the composting fence.
  — Sunset Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
• Young had always been fastidious, but now his hair and toenails had grown long.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2019
• My daughters will also agree their mom is more fastidious than most.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
• Plastic bags nestled in a heap at their feet, neat little parcels tied with fastidious knots.
  — Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
• But if its weight starts to drop, its brain signals to release stress hormones that incite the fastidious hiding of seeds all over the cage.
  — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
• All three are fastidious in not appearing to be party stooges.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 June 2021
• People can’t make sense of why a fastidious man like Leonard would flee the capital of posh grooming.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• The exterior logs of the cabin are the cladding and the structure, so the re-painting regimen must be fastidious.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• Trent, the way Rodriguez conveys him, is fastidious, well dressed and smarter than anyone else in the room.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 28 Dec. 2022
• Two female detectives are thrown together to solve the case, one fastidious, the other a more rough and ready type from out of town.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2022
• Designers directed their fantasies into white looks for fall, from the frilly to the fastidious.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
• Mount Everest has become something of a trash heap, as hordes of climbers have been less than fastidious in their ascents.
  — Kate Murphy, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• Porter had a reputation in the building for his fastidious work and was liked by the president, who sometimes rages at other aides.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• Avoiding them day to day means fastidious meal prep and planning, and planning for social events that include food or eating.
  — Daniel Schultz, Ms, SELF, 16 Apr. 2018
• With fastidious gestures, Cohn seemed fully in control of the new and often complex scores.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• While East African chimps have fastidious eating habits, their brethren to the west wolf their food like frat boys at a smorgasbord.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 June 1999
• Your mother, who was fastidious about keeping her home clean, now doesn’t notice the clutter.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
• Many, like Mathias Bengtsson, consider the tech to be just the first step in a long, fastidious process.
  — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2021
• Some homeless people are fastidious about keeping things as clean as possible around their tents, which helps keep rats away.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2021
• As fastidious as Karl was about many things, punctuality was not one of them.
  — Amy Synnott, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Feb. 2019
• In contrast, the French kitchen is an anally fastidious place, full of rules and regulations.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2020
• Smith recalled her initial skepticism of the medium based on his fastidious approach.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• But there’s only so much a fastidious team of hoteliers and casino designers can control.
  — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2019
• But the fastidious construction of many gowns — such as one with gold tentacles spilling down like a jellyfish — surely made up for it.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 24 Jan. 2022
• Would someone better credentialed or more fastidious dump out that water and boil fresh water to cook eggs?
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024