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Other | | Spanish term or phrase: ser escrupuloso | Hablando de una persona que no está dispuesta a beber, por ejemplo, con el vaso que ha usado antes otra persona. ¿Cómo se dice "escrupuloso" en este sentido en inglés?
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| | | English translation:fussy | Explanation:
another option... less formal than fastidious perhaps?... depending on context....
fuss·y (fs)
adj. fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est
1. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper: a fussy baby.
2. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious: He was always fussy about clothes.
3. Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details: a fussy actuarial problem.
4. Full of superfluous details: "It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space" (H.D.F. Kitto). |
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