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
With im peccable punctilio, he asked permission to show his orders from the British Ad miralty "to escort the ship of the Argentine minister while it is navigating in the waters of Her Majesty."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even so," said Agnes, somewhat mournfully; "false impressions have worked us so much woe, that it would not be wise to let a little feminine punctilio prevent you seeing things as they are....
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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