fastidious
/fæsˈtɪdi.əs/ adjectif C2En français : méticuleux, exigeant
- Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
- Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
- Having precise requirements for nutrition and environment (chemical and physical); especially, being difficult to culture because of those requirements. · fastidious organism· fastidious species
Dans la bibliothèque
“I would not be so fastidious as you are,” cried Bingley, “for a kingdom!
He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious; and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting.
She was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex—her nose was precisely what a sculptor would have chosen for a chiselled Juno.
As regarded her attainments, the only fault to be found with them was the same that a fastidious connoisseur might have found with her beauty, that they were somewhat too erudite and masculine for so young a person.
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