martinet
Example Sentences
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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
Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
No martinet in the system could have put as much spit-and-polish into a surface as those robots had.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing martinet
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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