unfastidious

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unfastidious

(ˌʌnfæˈstɪdɪəs)

adj

not fastidious; not fussy; not appropriately concerned with detail or cleanliness

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Adj.	1.	unfastidious - not exacting in nutritional requirements microbiology - the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans exacting, fastidious - having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
	2.	unfastidious - marked by an absence of due or proper care or attention to detail; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress" unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" untidy - not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" fastidious - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

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so sillyso satisfied so smilingso prosingso undistinguishing and unfastidious and so apt to tell every thing relative to every body about me, I would marry tomorrow.

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While the highly educated and fastidious Eliot blamed Confucianism and similar "deracinations" from Christian tradition for a good deal of what he saw as modernist heresy, the well-educated but unfastidious Chesterton does not draw such a direct connection, at least not in Heretics, though in Orthodoxy he does associate the theosophy of Annie Besant with Buddhism: "According to Mrs.

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(294) "The accompanying bank account was in Cyprus, picked on the advice of the service provider because of this bank's unfastidious willingness to accept bearer share companies." (295) The bank did require proof of Sharman's identity.