punctilious

How To Use punctilious In A Sentence

• Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Complete Father Brown
• I tried conversation with our host, but with the barrier of language and Mohammed slowly, punctiliously translating, it was halting.
• We want to make the pantomime writer, the proprietor of the penny "comic," the billsticker, and the music-hall artist extremely careful, punctiliously clean, but we do not want, for example, to pester Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mankind in the Making
• Of course I can fully understand the punctilious security in the US at the present time, even more so in light of recent events in Sweden, so part of me was relieved that they were taking so much care.
• Ritualism ensues with an unchallenged insistence upon punctilious adherence to formalized procedures.
• Elsewhere, a less than punctilious treatment of particulars may have more to do with expedience.
• punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette
• Betty's punctiliousness and house-cleanliness drive Peter mad; in turn, his strong rebellious streak and disobeying of her house orders get under her skin.
• He was a punctilious blighter and I can't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous.
• `I saw his picture in the Grub," he explained in his precise, punctilious voice. POLITICAL SUICIDE