Neatness and fastidiousness of dress. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Perhaps what I have called fastidiousness is a divine fear. From Wordnik.com. [George Bernard Shaw] Reference
Then I found you, Elfride, and I felt for the first time that my fastidiousness was a blessing. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Then I found you, Elfride, and l felt for the first time that my fastidiousness was a blessing. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
I had been neglecting my appearance ever since the night with Hannah had made it clear my fastidiousness was a waste of time. From Wordnik.com. [In This Way I Was Saved] Reference
This ancient custom has produced among Russians of the old school a kind of fastidiousness to which we are strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
He had not come near, fastidiousness outweighing curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
All round about him was subtlety, cleverness, fastidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
A little severity and fastidiousness render us better service. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of Catholic Girls] Reference
An almost identical signature; its fastidiousness was striking. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
If he sometimes jarred on their fastidiousness he did not know it. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
A duke took great pleasures in the small rituals of fastidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress of Justice]
Xavier himself had a near-monopoly on fastidiousness in Lonesome Dove. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Oxford, that "they practice fastidiousness there, and call it holiness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
This trick invested his handsome face with a kind of impish fastidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
If anybody felt in him a lack of fastidiousness, the point was not pressed. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Hemlock has no such fastidiousness, even preferring rotten wood as a seedbed. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference
The popular taste here would seem really guided by a fashion of fastidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Her sensitive lip curled with disgust, all her innate fastidiousness in revolt. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
And Bell added: "We should all act grown up, if she had her fastidiousness suited.". From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
And in addition elegance, fastidiousness, a certain insolence, a certain quirkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
fastidiousness carried that far -- fastidiousness of any sort -- was incomprehensible to. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
Loudly did he bewail his over-fastidiousness; in which, nevertheless, he secretly glorified. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
A sense of extreme fastidiousness rebuked, in a way, his more indiscriminate zeal as a collector. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Yet it may be as well to remind our fair readers that fastidiousness on this head cannot be carried too far. 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
That one's privacy, one's physical fastidiousness, could be affronted by mere words, would have astounded her. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
There was a weary craving upon him that might have led to terrible results, but his pride and fastidiousness saved him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
The fastidiousness and subtlety which led others to seek perfection in phrase and thought had little attraction for him. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
One of these was an exaggerated fastidiousness about clothes, and the other an undue deference to the dicta of the Press. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920] Reference
Rumsfeld, who normally mocks lawyers as worrywart bureaucrats and nitpickers, was demonstrating unusual legal fastidiousness. From Wordnik.com. [No Good Defense] Reference
It is a very laudable effort, and we should be justly accused of fastidiousness did we mention it as in the least blameworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Some people affect a fastidiousness in color and quality quite out of keeping with the purpose to which the paper is to be put. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
Some young persons indulge a fastidiousness of feeling in relation to this subject, as though it were indelicate to speak of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies] Reference
"Mrs. Gamp" and "Betsy Prig," 213; fastidiousness, 252; on Henry Mayhew, 270; relations with Albert Smith, 303; riding to hounds, 319, 426. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
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