punctilio

Accept the situation, and fight for yourself, taking your advantage where you can, and casting away scruples of punctilio.

Never did a more foolish punctilio bring about so terrible a result.

Absorbed in reflections of such unspeakable moment, I had no leisure to heed the niceties of punctilio.

The doctor greeted William cordially, and with that punctilio that a man offers to one whom he recognizes as his superior.

But I will not stand on punctilio when it is a question of trying to save a Penreath of Twelvetrees from the gallows.