martinet

Example Sentences

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That the legendary anti-interventionist Taft supported a vain martinet whose tirades included lobbying for nuclear war suggests he might have been less than a rock-solid man of principle.

From Salon

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

From New York Times

As are the old-fashioned words — like “martinet,” “popinjay” and “annealed” — that Galloway sprinkles through the text, the way Leigh strewed the beloved posies from her various country estates.

From New York Times

Purge school boards of the sort of bluenose martinet who thinks you should teach the Holocaust — the Holocaust! — without painful words and images.

From Seattle Times

In high school, Mr. Sahl joined the ROTC, and by his own account became an expert marksman and “something of a martinet.”

From Washington Post