What is "meticulously"

Usage examples of "meticulously".

Clearly, the ship was brand-new, built, he guessed after appraising its sleek lines, in Holland or Germany, and it was meticulously tended.

This ballet, so sympathetically described by Jenny to her friend Harry, this ballet in three acts, so meticulously rehearsed, this sumptuously staged ballet -- Haseloff in person had designed noise-making mechanisms and button-spitting automata -- this scarecrow ballet was never to open.

And, of course, there was mention of new private banking clients, always by name, always accompanied by a meticulously completed client information sheet.

His bailiff, Deputy Kimura, had toured the courtroom, meticulously collecting bubble gum and newspaper litter before Milne came in.

Outside in the sallyport Prew donned his campaign hat, adjusting it meticulously, low on the forehead, high in back, cocked just a little bit.

Robbie combed his hair meticulously, hoping to garner a few more few days before Sarge sent him back to the barber.

The whole enterprise would dissolve into a melee unless all the takings were pooled, and meticulously sorted, appraised, tallied, and then divided according to a rigid scheme.

It was a meticulously accurate job of translation, with no slant or opinion added in my favor, so I worried that Tallent might be taking his silly hand-to-heart oath seriously.

In the past it had seemed to the governing councils a profoundly unwise adventure, liable to attract the attention of the Hypotheticals, wasteful of resources, requiring acts of large-scale manufacturing that would dump unbudgeted volatiles into a meticulously managed and highly vulnerable biosphere.

It takes a long time to discover, through details like those of our paragraph, that every part of the apparent lapse is meticulously designed, and to reach at last the solution that Nabokov has not merely described the failure to control happiness and promise, but has made the reader experience this loss of control through sharing in his own unostentatious, apparently undeliberate and unrecognized failure - which is ultimately only an apparent failure.

Everything she told me seemed meticulously selected from a larger, unexposed story, some intrigue at which she only hinted.

Jasper propped up against the back of Ahu Akivi and the day Moira and I were to put our meticulously planned strategy into action, all hell broke loose.

Each time there were formal bows, the documents were meticulously examined afresh, a new captain and group of escorting Grays took over, and then they were passed.

Joyce Cottrell kept her house meticulously clean, immediately redecorating any room in which paint began to fade, choosing colors and fabrics from catalogs, finally venturing forth to make her purchases only when the newly redecorated room was complete in her mind down to the last detail.

No wonder that when Christian missionaries first came to Laos, they often found small, meticulously wrapped balls of opium in their offering plates.