punctilio
Example Sentences
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They combined, then as now, a wild bureaucratic adherence to punctilio and procedure with entanglements of cohort and clan that could shortcut the procedure in a moment.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
There lingers, even in our mercantile age, an admiration for the aristocratic ethos, the punctilio, of the duel.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015
Protocol, punctilio, politesse suddenly drop, leaving Tennyson’s “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
From BusinessWeek • Sep. 29, 2011
The grand punctilio of high-bosomed dreadnoughts like Emily Post had been unraveling for years, of course.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he waited on the diner with as much care for punctilio as though a formal banquet were in progress.
From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
