Retentive

Perhaps I simply need to stop being so … "retentive". ❋ Unknown (2010)

He's not obliged to like her ” some people don't, as he points out ” but it is only fair to let your readers know that she has a thoroughly first-rate mind (not just "jaggedly sharp") and a phenomenal (not merely "retentive") memory. ❋ Lake, Carlton (1965)

The retentive reader of Forster will relish the tricks by which Smith transforms the Edwardian tale of two families into her own story of the Belseys and the Kipps. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This, on the other hand, I read because I wanted to see how it came out, not because I spell anal-retentive with the hyphen in. ❋ Truepenny (2009)

Seriously people, why are you getting all an_l retentive about this? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I also asked him about my theory that site effects depend mostly on hydrology, which is what we are finding here at Fox Run (water-retentive soils make better grapes in dry years, while well-drained soils make better wine in wet years – keep in mind that these are non irrigated vineyards). ❋ Unknown (2009)

KCNA says: It, with effects of both preventive and curative treatment, helps improve mental and retentive faculties by multiplying brain cells. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've personally driven between Cleveland and points south (including Akron), and the mileage is well known. it's about 40 miles or so. or would it have made your anal retentive day better if I had said ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, these wires are not just twisted together in a sensible, civilized manner, they are wound tight enough to make an anal-retentive boy-scout proud, and then they are doubled over and twisted again. ❋ Ulysses (2009)

And architecture before and after Palladio had a grace (in the works of Brunelleschi and Bramante) and whimsy (the splendors of the baroque) that is kept muted in the anal-retentive purity of Palladio's style. ❋ Philip Kennicott (2010)

Because you don't have to weed, you can grow plants from fewer seeds, closer together, with each box broken down into neat, anal-retentive grids. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't have a personal stake in the matter ... just pointing out that, if we're inclined to be anal retentive and insist on proper nomenclature over tradition ... we might as well go all the way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If my inbox shows more than 60 emails sitting there waiting to be answered or taken care of in some way, I get very anxious (yes, I'm a bit anal-retentive). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's easy to maintain and good protection without being overly anal-retentive or time consuming. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such high standards are an impossibility, therefore, the pushing for that "perfection" creates fake, frustrated, anal retentive, "just for the picture" kind of mothers that become so involved in what they're supposed to be that they forget to love their children. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Away from anal retentive questions of legal formalism, does anyone give a damn as to whether or not it is right/moral/proper for the govt to effectively seize one-sixth of the economy over the clear unambiguous disapproval of the electorate? ❋ Unknown (2010)

And no, definitely not an anal retentive control freak. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She's a dictionary fan who even coined the joke, "Does 'anal-retentive' have a hyphen?" back in 1990. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He not only compos'd and committed that part of the work to his retentive memory, but he corrected it all in his head. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Joe] gets really retentive about his [car], dont [touch it]! ❋ Erienion (2005)

[umm] jsutin :P ❋ Midgit Seeker (2003)

One of my friends took a lot of ecstasy at at a party. After about 5 hours he had a terrible need to empty his bursting bladder. He couldn't pass any pee, not a drop. That went on for [18 hours] until he could urinate. That [retention] led him to give up drugs. Last year I had a [hernia] operation. After I came to, a beautiful nurse palpated my bladder area and found I had retention of urine. I hadn't gone for about 10 hours. I said I'll go to the toilet. Nothing would come out. I was glad when she held my penis, catheterized me, and emptied out about [a quart] of piss. [Retention] of urine is no fun not even when a good looking nurse opened me up. ❋ Ivy League 82 (2009)

The [tenacious] [sprite] had [excellent] retention. ❋ Larstait (2003)

[You heard] about [semen retention]? ❋ Ctsdj (2019)

“Wow, that [preacher] dude wouldn’t even touch [my band]’s CD because the cover was red and black, which he says are the colors of [Satan]! “You know that guy is totally angel retentive.” ❋ Bad Beth And Beyond (2020)

He has [to do] [everything] 'just so' - He is so anally retentive! ❋ Nusye (2003)

My anal retentive parents won't let me [leave the house] without leaving them with an address, name, and [phone number] for my [destination]. ❋ Jonathan (2004)

"Here's an entry reccomended for [deletion] because it's not 'urban'. And here's an entry reccomended for delition because it's not written as if in [a dictionary]. I do think these anal-retentives are quite [missing the point] of Urban Dictionary." ❋ Shanya Almafeta (2004)

"[harness] that anus, shower it with [gifts] for one day it's fruit may stand between us and complete [destruction]." ❋ Cortical Homunculus (2004)