Exacting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXACTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• EXACT, to demand
• demand and obtain (something) from someone
• inflict (revenge) on someone
ADJECTIVE:
• not approximated in any way; precise
• accurate or correct in all details
• (of a person) accurate and careful about minor details
• (of a subject of study) permitting precise measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories
• making rigorous or excessive demands
• Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
• having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
• severe and unremitting in making demands
• requiring precise accuracy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to force the payment or yielding of

Words related to EXACTING

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How to use EXACTING in a sentence

• You are a little exacting in requiring a reason in New-York for that which is done in London without even the pretence of such a thing.
• He put an end to the expensive tours of senators in the provinces, where they had appeared as princes exacting contributions.
• He was always fond of his wife, although her temper was quick and her habits exacting.
• At home the English Court did its best to prevent its Ministers exacting these promises.
• The caprices of sick people were never to be despised, least of all of such persons as Elsie, when rendered irritable and exacting by pain and weakness.
• I see now how a man may grow weary at last of life and its disorders, its unreal exacting disorders, its blunders and its remorse.
• Therefore he began with exacting an oath from the king, by which, without showing the extent of his design, he engaged him to everything he could ask.
• The British Government desires to treat all classes with justice, and to respect their religion, feelings, and customs, while exacting full retribution from offenders.
• I can only offer to submit my system to public inquiry, without exacting any preliminary fee from ladies and gentlemen who may honor me with a visit.
• Like all other unsuccessful revolutions, it was followed by a government still more exacting and severe.
• And he had taken it all well, doing his despotism pleasantly, exacting much, but exacting nothing that was disagreeable.
• This requirement was, however, less exacting than might appear when stated.
• For, giving him her spade, she stood over him and urged him to ply it with the exacting persistence of a biblical Egyptian superintending the making of bricks.
• Some contest Christianity as false, others reject it as too exacting and imposing excessive restraint.
• Michael Angelo was too exacting in the perfection of his taste to allow any work short of the absolute ideal he had imagined.
• For the curiosity of woman, lively at all times, is never so keen, so exacting, and so interested, as in her anxiety to become acquainted with the previous career of her lover.
• So far, during the junior year, the chums had had but little chance to see the girls, for the demands of football were fearfully exacting.
• If, in addition to his other characteristics, this man also has a high crown, he is inclined to be domineering and exacting.
• He was vividly imaginative, and he had exacting ideals of precision in expression.
• Never sparing himself in the duties of his exacting position on the Times, neither did he spare himself in extracting from life all the honey of comedy there was in it.
• If their friends behind would really care to improve them, it might be done by exacting from them a little more temperance in their sense of comedy.
• She speedily made it plain that she was only thus exacting because she had come on a matter of business.
• The peasant had done so after exacting a solemn oath from the serpent to do him no harm.
• It was a stage entrance, sufficiently conspicuous and effective to have satisfied the soul of the most exacting manager.
• The Professor was a stern and very exacting, but a sympathetic, teacher.
• As to his mind, perhaps my own ideals had made me too exacting.
• He was more exacting than generous, and more suspicious than confiding.

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