fastidiously

From fastidious +‎ -ly.

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fastidiously (comparative more fastidiously, superlative most fastidiously)

1. In a fastidious manner.
   • 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, […]:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

   • 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