disciplinarian
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The family was conservative; her dad, a disciplinarian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
In later years, Buhari attributed his disciplinarian bent to spending his formative years at boarding school, where corporal punishment was the norm, and in the military.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
The Agnews, Rikk, Frank, and Alfie, were the sons of a disciplinarian Irish father who worked for SoCal Gas and a Mexican mother.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
Children, according to the old disciplinarian maxim, should be seen and not heard.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2023
But the reason for the class’s “ooo” had to do with his real job: vice principal in charge of discipline—in short, the school’s disciplinarian.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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