methodical
/mɪˈθɑdɪkəl/ adjective C1- In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
- Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation. · the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise
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There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes.
It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge.
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
I am a methodical man, you see, and you never know what turn events might take afterwards.
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