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Adverb for making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources
“Classifying the case particulars is an exacting task. It requires intimate knowledge of the guide points and their concrete referents.”
Adverb for strict or exacting in standards
“Not only was it difficult for me to work with such an exacting boss, it was difficult for others. I soon became so stressed out that I began to look for another position.”
Adverb for fastidious and hard to please
“Now he was to be thrown into the crucible of a pennant race in New York City, under the most exacting manager the game had ever known.”
Adverb for harsh or authoritarian in nature or treatment
“The author of these sorrows was a hard and exacting tyrant who steadily dispensed injustice and cruelty to a people who had long enjoyed a happy tradition of freedom.”
Adverb for characterized by exaction, or the act of demanding or compelling payment
“You are an exacting man. You pick up what you have not put down and reap what you have not sown.”
Adverb for upsetting in nature
“To sacrifice the specificity of tragic events to the promotion of universal ideas is an exacting experience, especially for those who have personal memories of the events.”
Adverb for characterized by misfortune or distress
Adverb for persistent in one's demands, often annoyingly so
Adverb for sharp or severe in manner or style
Adverb for self-disciplined or ascetic
Adverb for engaging attention
Adverb for excessive or extreme in amount, level or degree
Adverb for extremely good or impressive
Adverb for established and not likely to experience any changes
Adverb for capable of making fine distinctions
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