Crossword-Solution: PERFECTIONIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perfectionist | n. | One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. |
We have 56 clues for the answer “PERFECTIONIST”
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| picker and chooser | 3 answers |
| worrier | 6 answers |
| Stickler | 8 answers |
| Fussbudget | 8 answers |
| FASTIDIOUS person | 9 answers |
| A PERSON WHO IS DISPLEASED BY ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT MEET VERY HIGH STANDARDS | 11 answers |
| HYPERCRITICAL person | 14 answers |
| OVERLY precise person | 16 answers |
| Muley | 18 answers |
| priggish | 23 answers |
| Idealistic | 26 answers |
| gigman | 31 answers |
| sexist | 31 answers |
| precisian | 32 answers |
| formalist | 32 answers |
| Conformist | 32 answers |
| Quibbler | 34 answers |
| Puritan | 34 answers |
| Prude | 34 answers |
| SMUG person | 34 answers |
| Bluenose | 34 answers |
| trier | 35 answers |
| Nit-picker | 35 answers |
| dogmatist | 35 answers |
| monomaniac | 35 answers |
| pettifogger | 35 answers |
| racist | 36 answers |
| chauvinist | 38 answers |
| Spoilsport | 38 answers |
| Idealist | 38 answers |
| Bluestocking. | 39 answers |
| Dreamer | 39 answers |
| Perfectionist | 40 answers |
| stuffed shirt | 42 answers |
| Bigot | 43 answers |
| CRANK ___ | 43 answers |
| worldling | 44 answers |
| Pedant | 45 answers |
| Prune | 45 answers |
| fusspot | 46 answers |
| IMPRACTICAL person | 46 answers |
| Snoot | 46 answers |
| purist | 48 answers |
| Egotist | 51 answers |
| Parvenu | 52 answers |
| Elitist | 52 answers |
| Upstart | 54 answers |
| Snob __ | 56 answers |
| prudish | 61 answers |
| Utopian | 61 answers |
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Sentences with PERFECTIONIST (5)
The final attainment and result of work is left for the perfectionist to regard it as worth every iota of distress, sacrifice , struggle and rumination invested or else the set up is undone and rebuilt again.
Moreover, the members of these two Perfectionist communes are almost all overseers of hired laborers; and Oneida is in reality more a large and prosperous manufacturing corporation, with a great number of partners all actively engaged in the work, than a commune in the common sense of the word.
Noyes, the founder of the Perfectionist communes, gives, in his book on "American Socialisms," brief accounts of not less than forty-seven failures, many of them experiments which promised well at first, and whose founders were high-minded, highly cultivated men and women, with sufficient means, one would think, to achieve success.
Old Father Taylor, the famous Methodist Bethel preacher in Boston, was a Perfectionist, and when he was asked if he thought anybody had since lived who was as good as Jesus, he said: "Yes; millions of them." This is Methodist authority.
And as for the Antinomian, perfectionist, and higher-life preachers of that day, they are all so dead and forgotten that you would not know their names even if I repeated them.
Quotes with PERFECTIONIST (3)
The truth is that I will always need you more than you need me. It’s also the truth that I’m not a good bet for someone as vital and young as you. I’m bad tempered, a perfectionist who is too serious, and too used to being on my own. You could go out tomorrow and find someone better for you, but the truth is that no one will ever need you like I do.” He pauses and then says firmly. “No one will ever love you like I do.
The Perfectionist pushed Tom onto her bed. She took off his shirt. She took off his shoes and his socks. She took off his pants. She took off his boxers. With most guys the Perfectionist would stop there. She didn’t. She was still feeling reckless. She took off his skin. She took off his nervous system. She lifted up his rib cage. His heart beat in her hand. And there, underneath it, she found a rusted tin box. She opened it. Inside she found his hopes, his dreams and his fea…
There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.