perfectionist
Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
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- You're looking for a coldblooded, faceless, perfectionist killer who you think has no persistent MO or victim type. - In a city with an eight-digit population... - Well. Good luck! - I don't need luck. I only need m…
I was going to say half an hour, all in, but then, I'm a perfectionist.
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Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
“- You're looking for a coldblooded, faceless, perfectionist killer who you think has no persistent MO or victim type. - In a city with an eight-digit population... - Well. Good luck! - I don't need luck. I only need more information.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I was going to say half an hour, all in, but then, I'm a perfectionist.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, historical) One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.
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(philosophy, now, rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
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