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Example sentences for "fastidiously"

Lexicographically close words:
fastenings; fastens; faster; fastest; fastidious; fastidiousness; fastigia; fastigiate; fasting; fastings
  1. Beatrice was fastidiously refined in some respects, and she thought of him as clean.

  2. Fastidiously neat in dress, with long riding gloves and a spotless gray hat, he formed a marked contrast to the big, greasy man sprinkled with soot from the engine.

  3. Fastidiously neat in his dress, though his clothes were by no means of the latest cut, and sitting very upright, he had an air of dignity and command.

  4. She resembled her own house to a striking degree; she was fastidiously neat, but not in the least orderly.

  5. She stood before the woman in all the moral excellence of a censor fastidiously clad.

  6. She knew he loved her and he had a strange fascination; he stood for romance and adventure, but she was fastidiously honest and now and then he jarred.

  7. Still he must not be fastidiously critical about his friend.

  8. Fitzroy was a young man of fashion and fortune, of fine person, elegant manners, cultivated mind, and fastidiously refined taste.

  9. Thus Villeneuve speculated, till his whole attention became absorbed in the sermon, which as a literary production was exactly suited to his fastidiously refined taste.

  10. We were amateurs, not experts in coast defence, and on such vague grounds to fastidiously reject a clue which went so far as this one was to quarrel with our luck.

  11. For a second I was back in the dreary splendour of the London club-room, spelling out that crabbed scrawl from Davies, and fastidiously criticizing its proposal in the light of a holiday.

  12. The poet," he says, "fastidiously retreated from all that threatened labour.

  13. Her small nose puckered fastidiously as she added, "The company is odious and I hate the play and the hotels provide unfinished road-beds to sleep on and I've been headachy and altogether miserable.

  14. He was spoken of as fastidiously clean of life, and yet it is doubtful whether any shadow of self-illusion found harbor in his own mind.

  15. There the musician and the girl went, he as explorer, fastidiously critical, yet enduring what he regarded as squalor and anarchy, for the new experience of feeling that he was penetrating Bohemia.

  16. He threaded alder thickets and passed through groves of silver birches that shivered fastidiously in the breeze.

  17. He leaned forward with his gloved hands on his cane and once or twice under his fastidiously trimmed beard, his lips twitched painfully.

  18. The word slave is most cautiously and fastidiously excluded from the whole instrument.

  19. Moving farther along the bank, he came upon the two policemen, who looked very hot and somewhat muddy, which, as they were usually fastidiously neat, was noticeable.

  20. He was cool and, by contrast with Deering, looked fastidiously refined.

  21. He was old and rather fat, but his clothes were fastidiously neat and his glance was keen.

  22. What might appear sordid and squalid to the fastidiously reared, was to them eminently wholesome and natural.

  23. Daylight was fastidiously chivalrous on this point.

  24. Instead, she wheeled to see a pair of fastidiously pressed blue serge trousers, an immaculate white collar, a straight nose and ruddy complexion.

  25. Nell nodded her head and watched as the man's fastidiously pressed trousers and polished shoes cleared the closing door.

  26. The nails must always be fastidiously clean, and never allowed to grow inordinately long.

  27. It not only boasted a window, but there was a round hole in the "shake" roof, fastidiously cut to fit a stove-pipe.

  28. It was fastidiously simple and fastidiously worn.

  29. And then I chuckled softly to myself, and set out to the fastidiously appointed private office of Monsieur Louis Devoe, usurper to the hand of the Pearl of the Pacific.

  30. All day he sat in a fastidiously appointed office, surrounded by works of art and evidences of his high culture, directing through glass doors and windows the affairs of his house.

  31. He was not so fastidiously exact about killing his man by inches.

  32. Tinned meats had given out; this was considered the last straw, even by the fastidiously clean, and the toxicologist who liked his salmon fresh.

  33. They intended to have slept at Le Croix Blanc, as we had done, but were fastidiously disgusted by the look of the inn.

  34. It WAS Flynn, but completely shaven of beard and mustache, closely clipped of hair, and in a fastidiously cut suit of black!

  35. Having licked his jaws and fastidiously polished the fur of his shrewd, keen face, he sauntered off to see what other delicacies the evening might have in store for him.

  36. He went out on the veranda where Nicolette was already seated with a young gentleman, very fastidiously dressed.

  37. Markel was fat and important; he had beady black eyes, fastidiously trimmed whiskers--and a pronounced smirk.

  38. Jimmie Dale instantly and nonchalantly produced his cigarette case, selected a cigarette, and fastidiously tapped its end on his thumb nail.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fastidiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.