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Another word for exacting

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exacting

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demanding, rigorous, precise; see critical 2, difficult 1, onerous, severe 1. See syn. study at onerous.

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Rigorous and unsparing in treating others:
demanding, hard, harsh, rigid, severe, stern, strict, tough, unyielding. See easy
Very difficult to please:
choosy, dainty, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, nice, particular, persnickety, squeamish. (Informal) picky. See accept
Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:
arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy

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These exacting tasks did not absorb all his energies.
Howie described the car, license plate, and man in exacting detail.
O'Neill, however, refused to put himself in the power of Sussex without a guarantee for his safety; and his claims in other respects were so exacting that Elizabeth consented to measures being taken to subdue him and to restore Brian.
Upon the accession of President McKinley in 1897, he resigned from the Senate and became secretary of state; but under the tension of the war with Spain the duties of the office became too exacting for his strength at his age, and in April 1898 he resigned and withdrew into private life.
With those about him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused.

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