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Word of the Day (Saturday January 10, 2009)
fastidious \fa-STID-ee-uhs\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/485jQ
hard to please; extremely refined or critical
For months, his tall, fastidious figure had prowled around the
old city hall on Wall Street, examining its eighty-year-old
brickwork, muttering to himself in French, or his syntactically
challenged English, imagining-where others saw merely a tired
old workhorse of a building-a blank canvas upon which to paint
an architectural epic.
-- Fergus M. Bordewich, The Making of the American Capital,
2008-05-16
Penske cannot say for sure that being fastidious off the
racetrack results in being fast on it. What he can say, though,
is that he has created a culture that has fostered loyalty.
-- Dave Caldwell, New York Times, 2006-05-28
c 1440, "full of pride," from Latin fastidiosus "disdainful,
squeamish, exacting," from fastidium "loathing," most likely
from fastu-taidiom, a compound of fastus "contempt, arrogance"
and tædium "aversion, disgust." The meaning "squeamish,
over-nice" emerged in England by 1612.
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