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Перевод: punctilious
[прилагательное] педантичный; очень щепетильный; щепетильный до мелочей
Тезаурус:
- Quite possibly another administration than a British one, less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious, would have arranged for him a quiet accident, or a fatal incarceration.
- He had his team and he was too punctilious not to share his thinking with them.
- So was the use of a word like "punctilious".
- A punctilious attention to prayers and strict religious observance would win their indulgence.
- During the Falklands War, Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments, and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions.
- His letters to Helen, in particular, uncover the head for business, the punctilious sense of irritable rightness, and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection, similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks.
- "Darling, how ghastly for you," Louise commiserated, remembering how punctilious over her appearance her cousin Nora had always been.
- Perhaps one is being a little punctilious, but some clarification of these, and other, matters would have been helpful to the novice.
- Letters to Bath and Bristol arrived too seldom and erratically to satisfy the punctilious Southey, who deplored most of all the lack of communication with Sara.
- On top of that he was pictured in such chic situations as the bar of the Metropolitan Opera House confiding such pearls of worldly wisdom as "A punctilious barman (or butler) will always serve you Schweppes Club Soda for highballs".
- They were punctilious in ensuring that new staff read the hygiene regulations, but the running of the kitchen itself was entirely left to those working there.
- Absolutely punctilious, he is prone to mood swings which only the exhilaration of activity can overcome.
- Even employers who are punctilious in consulting staff representatives sometimes fail to talk directly to the people whose jobs are at stake.
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