martinet

Example Sentences

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Francis was a remarkable martinet, acting as the club’s traveling secretary and business manager.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

Her father, an elegant, temperamental martinet, was controlling when he wasn’t completely absent.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2021

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

Several celebrated actresses, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Angela Lansbury, turned down the part of Nurse Ratched, a martinet who tried to keep the men in her ward sedated and under control.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 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