hyperfastidious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyperfastidious
Adjective
  • This is true of people who don’t bathe and also people who are fastidious about bathing and douse themselves in cologne, and everyone else in between.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • Aside from Howard Hughes, Enzo Ferrari was Mann’s white whale: a fastidious man who was excellent at his job and attempted to bury—yet was consumed by—overwhelming emotional torment.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Is there any particular song that a band member fights for?
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2025
  • Direct costs are the immediate costs of a specific piece of research; indirect costs are those that cannot be directly connected to a particular project but which are necessary for research.
    Clifford Ando, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • The distillery’s production philosophy focuses on small-batch craftsmanship and selective maturation.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • And the number of applications to the richest and most selective universities keeps rising.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Its sandbox-style user experience can be finicky, but the results are solid.
    Bernard May, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • There, Remy helps bumbling kitchen worker Alfredo Linguini cook a series of increasingly delectable dishes that soon attract the attention of the city’s most finicky restaurant critic, Anton Ego.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • The 55-year-old entertainer has been serving up some spring-ready nail looks in recent weeks, last seen wearing minimalist soap nails with a dainty french tip.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2025
  • One is a dog, one is a daintier version of Reynolds himself, one is a Lady Deadpool, and another is emblazoned with the green colors and red dragon of the Welsh flag.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 July 2024
Adjective
  • Justin’s Almond Butter My youngest niece, a picky eater, has found her match with these nut butter pouches.
    Ronny Maye, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • On the first day, my picky and very spoiled cats played with it for three hours straight.
    WIRED, Wired News, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • For the discriminating listener, the thousands spent outfitting a vehicle with a top-of-the-line amplifier, speakers, and subwoofers are all for naught if the source signal is a low-quality MP3 or Advanced Audio Coding music file.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
  • If the United States is upset with a country over its human rights abuses, for example, reducing or even cutting off economic and diplomatic ties as punishment risks ceding influence to a less discriminating China.
    Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
Adjective
  • While tariffs may lead to consumers being more choosy, Link said the overall macroeconomic picture still looks positive, bolstered by lower interest rates, a steady job market and strong consumer savings.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And by that time in her career, Salonga could be choosy.
    Robert Ito, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Hyperfastidious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperfastidious. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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