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fastidiously

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fas·tid·i·ous  (f-std-s, f-)
adj.
1. Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail.
2. Difficult to please; exacting.
3. Excessively scrupulous or sensitive, especially in matters of taste or propriety. See Synonyms at meticulous.
4. Microbiology Having complicated nutritional requirements.
[Middle English, squeamish, particular, haughty, from Old French fastidieux, from Latin fastdisus, from fastdium, squeamishness, haughtiness, probably from fastus, disdain.]
fas·tidi·ous·ly adv.
fas·tidi·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.fastidiously - in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling"
painstakingly
2.fastidiously - in a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative"


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Think of people FARMING on a slant which is so steep that the best you can say of it--if you want to be fastidiously accurate--is, that it is a little steeper than a ladder and not quite so steep as a mansard roof.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Ellenwood was a shy, but not quite a secluded man; selfish, like all men who brood over their own hearts, yet manifesting on rare occasions a vein of generous sentiment; a scholar throughout life, though always an indolent one, because his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delicate, yet sometimes requiring a considerable relaxation, in his behalf, of the common rules of society.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Others are still more capricious in their tastes; and after gathering together a heap of the nuts of all ages, and ingeniously tapping them, will first sip from one and then from another, as fastidiously as some delicate wine-bibber experimenting glass in hand among his dusty demi-johns of different vintages.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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