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Definition of Fastidious
Fastidious

Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

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Fastidious Quotations

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
Mason Cooley

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Thomas Reid

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
Henny Youngman

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
Marie Osmond

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine

Fastidious Translations

fastidious in Latin is fastidiosus
fastidious in Norwegian is kresen


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