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    Use "fastidiousness" in a sentence

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    fastidiousness


    1. I know you are clever, full of brains, intellectually all that can be desired, but what's the good of that when the rest of you are so weak? You are of a diseased fastidiousness


    2. And sometimes Miss Entwhistle even doubted whether it was this that mattered to her at all,--whether it was not rather some quite small things that she really objected to: a want of fastidiousness, for instance, a forgetfulness of the minor courtesies,--the objections, in a word, she told herself smiling, of an old maid


    3. Just the irritation she caused me with her unpunctuality, her fastidiousness, and those trips to London which I thought she encouraged, if not initiated


    4. Linton eyed him with a droll expression---half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness


    5. If Tess had been artful, had she made a scene, fainted, wept hysterically, in that lonely lane, notwithstanding the fury of fastidiousness with which he was possessed, he would probably not have withstood her


    6. Opinions may be divided as to his wisdom in making this present: some may think that it was a graceful attention to be expected from a man like Lydgate, and that the fault of any troublesome consequences lay in the pinched narrowness of provincial life at that time, which offered no conveniences for professional people whose fortune was not proportioned to their tastes; also, in Lydgate's ridiculous fastidiousness about asking his friends for money


    7. Linton eyed him with a droll expression—half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness


    8. But this fastidiousness and irony which he preserved in spite of all shocks reassured me at the time


    9. But all at once, à propos of nothing, there would come a phase of scepticism and indifference (everything happened in phases to me), and I would laugh myself at my intolerance and fastidiousness, I would reproach myself with being romantic


    10. All my fastidiousness would suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, vanish

    11. Emott,) who spoke yesterday, certainly very pertinently, and very handsomely, tells the House that in this case no other money than that of the United States, will be received; that with a sort of Castilian fastidiousness, those persons acting for the Government of Spain will not touch any money which shall not be offered in the quality of public money


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    "fastidiousness" definitions

    the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style