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

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

I don’t think this is too strictly enforced except when the place is run by an obsessive martinet like Amadeus von Linden.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein