Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfastidious
Literary usage of Overfastidious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Youth, too, may become overfastidious and effeminate, and this may pervade toilet,
manners, care for health, or even take the form of moral nicety, ..."
2. American Literature by Julian Willis Abernethy (1902)
"But this overfastidious and too conscious attention to form was corrected in
the " Conquest of Mexico " and the " Conquest of Peru. ..."
3. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell, Albert Mordell (1920)
"... (without being overfastidious) that gauges the natural elevation of his mind.
He is a gossip, but he has supped with Plato or sat with Alexander in his ..."
4. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells, Boni & Liveright (1920)
""I don't think I'm overfastidious, Jimmy, but that last meeting of yours seemed
to me to be very cheap and nasty." "Dear ma, the world itself is rather ..."
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