#480 fastidious

fastidious- very critical; hard to please; excessively particular from details; exceedingly delicate; easily disgusted

C15 from Latin fastidiosus scornful, from fastidium loathing, from fastus pride+taedium weariness

After Ray died, their bed became a nest of quilts, manuscripts and galley proofs, from which the solitary, once fastidious woman watched junky late-night television.

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