单词 | meticulously |
释义 | meticulously (once / 8621 pages) adv If you clean your house meticulously, you take plenty of time and scour every single nook and cranny, maybe even behind the oven and under the doormat. Meticulous means extremely careful and thorough, so if you do something meticulously, you are painstaking about doing it perfectly. Someone who would never leave her house with an un-ironed t-shirt or a thread hanging loose is someone who dresses meticulously. If your town historian documents every event, from births to remodeled living rooms, then she does her job meticulously, maybe a little too meticulously. WORD FAMILYmeticulous: meticulosity, meticulously, meticulousness USAGE EXAMPLESThe scene in the Longs’ meticulously decorated Jim Thorpe home might seem typical for a big, busy family. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) No meticulously planned stealth release, with its carefully cultivated air of surprise and concealed impact date, was as surprising as David Bowie or Prince’s death. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) Yale historian Timothy Snyder meticulously recounts the horrors visited upon Eastern Europe under Hitler and Stalin. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) adv in a meticulous manner the set was meticulously authentic |
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