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fastidiousness

/fa-stid-ee-uhs, fuh-/US // fæˈstɪd i əs, fə- //UK // (fæˈstɪdɪəs) //

严谨性,严谨的态度,严谨,快捷

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
    • : requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.

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Examples

  • O’Brien was said by colleagues to have been a fastidious dresser and smooth talker.

  • Lacking this excluded multitude his fastidiousness would have no subject, and his singularity no contrast.

  • But in addition to the fact that he finds no deer, he is a good deal of trouble from the fastidiousness of his appetite.

  • One can understand, of course, how an unreasonable and troublesome fastidiousness might be shown regarding travellers' tales.

  • She told herself that his fastidiousness shrank from any but a "light touch," and that hers had not been light enough.

  • She retraced her steps, putting down her feet with the delicate fastidiousness of a cat in order not to tread on a flower.