The headmaster demanded that the students dress fastidiously each day. From LearnThat.org.
He writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a fastidious eater. From Dictionary.com.
Creating this kind of fastidiously conceived, rigorously executed parallel universe is tricky stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Funny People Viral Marketing: Yo Teach! | /Film] Reference
When she left school Beth was fastidiously refined. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Everything, as usual, was fastidiously neat and clean. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Simon recoiled fastidiously as she leaned rather too near. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
And for his swamper's labor he was almost fastidiously clean. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
The first glassful slid down, fastidiously followed by bread. From Wordnik.com. [Stalin's Ghost]
"I know no one else so fastidiously refined, without being a prig.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Cleveland Jr. fastidiously make his bed, ensuring the blanket doesn't. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of The Cleveland Show : Hancock's Previous Episodes] Reference
He is fastidiously peeling the silver paper from it with his fingertips. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
El Matarife fastidiously wiped the tip of his blade on his leather sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
Towards ladies, his manner was always most fastidiously delicate and courteous. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
Jin-qua fastidiously picked some food and ate it, his eyes narrowing even more. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
For meals, they eat mostly what they produce -- and count calories fastidiously. From Wordnik.com. [Working Off The Weight] Reference
I looked over at Mycroft, who had perched fastidiously in a corner during the work. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
He was born in the lap of a society daintily intellectual and fastidiously cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The word slave is most cautiously and fastidiously excluded from the whole instrument. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The nails must always be fastidiously clean, and never allowed to grow inordinately long. From Wordnik.com. [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference
He's fastidiously neat and pays his bills immediately and balances his checkbook perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Lehr: Ill-Equipped? (Who Isn't?)] Reference
The alien picked his way fastidiously through the noxious debris to the end of the long room. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
Polly Kirkshore sat at a dressing table, fastidiously reapplying rouge to his cheeks and lips. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
Was it probable that Arjamand and her Emperor had loved fastidiously, and yet how they had loved!. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Patience and letting law enforcement take their time and fastidiously work through each of the facts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2009] Reference
Time does not stand still in Africa; it just moves more slowly, more sporadically and less fastidiously. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Bergman: To Fix a Flat] Reference
Keela had been restless and unhappy, fastidiously aloof with the Seminoles, shy and reticent with white men. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
She replaced the candlestick on the table and fastidiously flicked a spatter of wax from the back of her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
She stood up, brushing the seat of her gown fastidiously, like one who was used to sitting in cleaner surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Other volunteers fastidiously organize campaign literature for canvassers who will soon be doing neighborhood walks. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn Teo: McCain Home-State Offices Remain Empty While Polls Tighten; Obama Offices Bustling] Reference
Nell nodded her head and watched as the man's fastidiously pressed trousers and polished shoes cleared the closing door. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
The sitting room was not big, particularly in comparison with the one on Rue Ballu, but it was furnished just as fastidiously. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Informer]
It's really a very comfortable way of traveling about and the wagon was fastidiously fitted up by my distinguished predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Mr Gywnne was a gentleman, even in his peculiarities -- fastidiously a gentleman -- and comported himself as such to every one. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Although careless and shaggy enough in appearance in all conscience, Kosinski happened to be fastidiously clean about his person. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
Scaurus bent to close the eyes, and winced fastidiously; so much dust lay upon the drying eyeballs that the lids refused to come down. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Just last year, the discussion paper fastidiously left open the fundamental question of "whether there is a link between extremism and terrorism.". From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: The Fifth Man] Reference
Having been fastidiously purified by repeated scourings and ablutions, it proved very useful in preparing our meals, of which fresh fish frequently formed the principal part. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
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