Punctilious

a.

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Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of common life. - I. Taylor.

Adj.

1.

punctilious - marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" Synonyms: meticulous

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