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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Watch out for slippery roads: Be extra careful during the first half hour after rain begins.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
7 June 2025
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Be careful to avoid spraying plants with oils during hot, sunny weather.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Personally choosing to use less water is a nice start, but grander actions will be needed to effectively address the interrelated issues that drive the overuse of water.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Wilson completed a pass to Dee Eskridge, who made a nice one-handed catch with cornerback Kendall Sheffield in coverage.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Ambition meets reality The thing that doomed this particular Wheel of Time production from the start was the sky-high expectations that Amazon had for it.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
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This year, in particular, organizers for pride events, including in San Francisco and Houston, are seeing corporate sponsors pull out or give less of financial support.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Hydrangeas can be a bit finicky and may take a few weeks to months to settle in.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
31 May 2025
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But the finicky weather usually makes for a shorter window.—
Ben Ayers,
Outside Online,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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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
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For the two musical interludes, Gaga was at her most exacting and confrontational.—
Esther Zuckerman,
The Atlantic,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This meticulous attention to detail makes the P3 series particularly effective for low-light observation, providing users with vibrant and clear views in challenging lighting conditions like those found whilst stargazing.—
Matt Morris,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Dungarpur recalls long hours spent restoring the film, reflecting on Ray’s meticulous attention to detail and how every frame was carefully storyboarded.—
THR India Staff,
HollywoodReporter,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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What would the notoriously persnickety Corbitt say about those bold additions?—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
17 May 2025
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Jonathan Pryce plays the persnickety headmaster who prefers to keep politics outside the school walls.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The Braves are not in a position to be picky about defense.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025
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Sometimes gratitude came easily, such as when Deb helped their kids, who were picky eaters, become more adventurous.—
Rhaina Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2025
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“Fastidious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fastidious. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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