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anal-retentive

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a·nal-re·ten·tive (nl-r-tntv)
adj. Psychology
Indicating personality traits, such as meticulousness, avarice, and obstinacy, originating in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in retention of feces.
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anal-retentive
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An undercover anal-retentive about order and cleanliness, Dustin kept us on track when it came to the book and what we needed to do.
``Big Day'' examines the efforts of sweetly high-strung Alice (Marla Sokoloff) and goofy neo-slacker Danny (Josh Cooke) to survive their wedding day, which has been precision-planned to within an inch of its life by Alice's anal-retentive mother, Jane (Wendy Malick, using every weapon in her comic repertoire).
And as Bree Van De Kamp, Cross plays, arguably, Desperate Housewives' most complex character: an anal-retentive uber-mom with a membership in the National Rifle Association who doesn't flinch at covering up her teenage son's hit-and-run accident.
 
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