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perfectionist

noun as in stickler

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This perfectionist, however, has become unhinged—just how Coupe likes it.

They repeat tasks over and over with a ritualistic and often perfectionist bent.

"Bernice Reig was always too much of a perfectionist to allow a franchised store out of her control," Mr. Hoch told us.

Off the track, she had been a perfectionist pre-med student with a perfect GPA.

She's a perfectionist and if she does give TV a go she'd give Oprah a run for her money!

Nor is humanity itself fitted for the kind of transformation which fills the dreams of the perfectionist.

Almost fiercely she was bent upon making him the moral perfectionist she had made Merle.

Do you think that is because you are a sensitive perfectionist as far as the language is concerned?

A perfectionist, my guru was hypercritical of his disciples, whether in matters of moment or in the subtle nuances of behavior.

That doesn't mean he is a perfectionist in many things, that he etches as well as he paints, that he composes as well as he draws.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to perfectionist, such as: fusspot, idealist, purist, quibbler, formalist, and fussbudget.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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