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Synonyms for exacting
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ig-zak-ting |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪgˈzæk tɪŋ |
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Définition of exacting
Origin :- "too demanding," 1580s, present participle adjective from exact (v.).
- adj demanding
- They drank to the health of this exacting, loyal maiden, and Cross gave her name.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- It never occurred to her that she could have put off this exacting job.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- In fact, the fairies in Cymric land are among the most exacting of any known.
- Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
- I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting—Bird, be quiet!'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- Is there a dramatic art--exacting, difficult, supreme--or is there not?
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Perhaps the most exacting of all authors was "Lewis Carroll."
- Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
- He was, also, an incomparable artisan and the most exacting foreman in the shops.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- "They are exacting the truth from the Governor of Cesena," said he.
- Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
- The most exacting and bewitching of all professions was clamouring for him again.
- Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Let poverty do its worst in exacting its toll of humiliation.
- Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
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