martinet

Example Sentences

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But Laws isn’t just a martinet, or the avatar of a brutal institution.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

In comparison, Schultz comes off as less of a martinet and more of a prig in the trial transcripts.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2020

Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

Murdoc, the bassist, mastermind and martinet, was a hybrid of Keith Richards and Lurch, the manservant from “The Addams Family” cartoons.

From Economist • Jul. 5, 2018

As a general, Lot seems to have been a martinet and something of a coward.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White