fastidiously

comparative more fastidiously · superlative most fastidiously

1. In a fastidious manner.

   2012, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13, Constable & Robinson Ltd, link She shuddered fastidiously at the idea of being a Christian instead of a godsfearing Roman pagan and changed the subject

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   You know me, Sir! cried Susannah fastidiously, and with a toss of her head,—levelled evidently, not at his profession, but at the doctor himself,—you know me! cried Susannah again.

   1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]

   He coughed, put on his glasses, arranged them fastidiously, coughed again, and wished something would happen to avert the seemingly inevitable exposure.

   1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 11, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC

   While the French emissary fastidiously avoided evoking the 1925 negotiations, given the Marshal's vehemently negative sentiments on the subject, Pilsudski promptly saw through the French move to locarnize the treaty.

   2002, Nicole Jordan, The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918–1940, page 16