How to Use fastidious in a Sentence

fastidious

adjective
  • She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.
  • He is fastidious about keeping the house clean.
  • There is going to be this look about her that’s very neat and clipped and tight and fastidious.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Certain fastidious fans of fleece hold them up as some of the best hoodies in the world.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • Mildew and musty smells can occur in clothes in even the most fastidious of households.
    — Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Young had always been fastidious, but now his hair and toenails had grown long.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2019
  • My daughters will also agree their mom is more fastidious than most.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
  • The sounds were lovely, the playing fresh as well as fastidious.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The hike to the top is a short but fastidious one with the most incredible views.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Plastic bags nestled in a heap at their feet, neat little parcels tied with fastidious knots.
    — Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
  • But that was hardly the end of our fastidious, crime-solving genius.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • All three are fastidious in not appearing to be party stooges.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 June 2021
  • Chavez cares for each of his charges with the fastidious attention a coach might apply to star athletes.
    — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 3 Jan. 2017
  • Your mother, who was fastidious about keeping her home clean, now doesn’t notice the clutter.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
  • Trent, the way Rodriguez conveys him, is fastidious, well dressed and smarter than anyone else in the room.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But even the most fastidious of hosts are known to leave an ingredient off the shopping list or — horrors!
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
  • None of the waiting, none of the smell…even the most fastidious gardeners should hop off the composting fence.
    — Sunset Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
  • People can’t make sense of why a fastidious man like Leonard would flee the capital of posh grooming.
    — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But if its weight starts to drop, its brain signals to release stress hormones that incite the fastidious hiding of seeds all over the cage.
    — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • As fastidious as Karl was about many things, punctuality was not one of them.
    — Amy Synnott, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Mount Everest has become something of a trash heap, as hordes of climbers have been less than fastidious in their ascents.
    — Kate Murphy, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Avoiding them day to day means fastidious meal prep and planning, and planning for social events that include food or eating.
    — Daniel Schultz, Ms, SELF, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Two female detectives are thrown together to solve the case, one fastidious, the other a more rough and ready type from out of town.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2022
  • This may be because cats are fastidious groomers and may remove ticks from their fur before the ticks have a chance to transmit the bacterium.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024
  • As the mission sprints its final lap before launch day, their fastidious preparation stands out as an achievement in its own right.
    — Matt Alderton, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • While East African chimps have fastidious eating habits, their brethren to the west wolf their food like frat boys at a smorgasbord.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 June 1999
  • Roose is right that Apple is, to put it mildly, a fastidious creator of consumer products.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
  • With fastidious gestures, Cohn seemed fully in control of the new and often complex scores.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • Many, like Mathias Bengtsson, consider the tech to be just the first step in a long, fastidious process.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2021
  • In contrast, the French kitchen is an anally fastidious place, full of rules and regulations.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2020

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