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"Very careful"2 answers
scrupulous10 letterspainstaking11 letters
Filled answer is this word (PAINSTAKING).
Definitions
characterized by extreme care and great effort
Word origin
From pains + taking; see take pains. The /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/ pronunciation which dominates in the United States suggests a reanalysis of the word as pain + staking.
Used in a sentence
“All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.”
“I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.”
“It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Very careful”11 letters
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