How To Use Punctilious In A Sentence
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Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour.
The Complete Father Brown
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I tried conversation with our host, but with the barrier of language and Mohammed slowly, punctiliously translating, it was halting.
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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
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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.
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Ritualism ensues with an unchallenged insistence upon punctilious adherence to formalized procedures.
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Elsewhere, a less than punctilious treatment of particulars may have more to do with expedience.
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punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette
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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.
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He was a punctilious blighter and I can't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous.
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`I saw his picture in the Grub," he explained in his precise, punctilious voice.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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As long as the Lord Chancellor is punctilious in keeping his separate roles distinct, the separation of powers is not undermined and the justice system benefits immeasurably.
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He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
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Although ex-servicemen like Malcolm still wear formal dress at breakfast, others aren't so punctilious, and a notice has recently been sent out suggesting appropriate styles.
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His punctiliousness knew no bounds when it came to the methodology of his research.
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One man turns "obsessive about his exercise program"; another, the fussbudget bachelor in "Trespass," drives a would-be girlfriend crazy by punctiliously noting their nature walks in a logbook.
Stories of Midlife Crises And Motherhood Dilemmas
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Negligent he may have been in his personal appearance and his domestic arrangements but he was also pragmatic, punctilious and a stickler for detail.
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Given the circumstances, his behaviour to Laura had been punctiliously correct.
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Dorrington's hospitality save when his lordship was present, for your cricket-player is a bit more punctilious in such matters than your turfmen or ring-side habitués.
R. Holmes & Co.
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The king was intelligent and punctilious in his performance of his official duties and had a regal bearing that commanded immediate respect.
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‘Berlin, in area, is the same size as London,’ he informed me in that emphatic, punctilious way that Germans have with English, as if there were a euphonium playing in their heads.
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So punctilious was Lord Mackay that civil servants were instructed not to pass on ‘political’ messages on his behalf.
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One thing about Vollmann's fan base: they were punctilious in their temperament.
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The most punctilious, protocolic people in existence?
Morgan’s Run
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He has always been punctilious in allowing witnesses to say what they want to say; he has never interrupted except on points of clarification.
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To some people, I suspect, she came to embody the negative image of the copy editor: punctilious, schoolmarmish and blue-stockinged.
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He is a quiet man, courteous and punctilious on form and protocol.
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He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
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The guards were bored but punctilious, an officer must be watching them from the shed; near the stove.
THE LAST RAVEN
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In ordinary conversations, this means punctilious use of words like please, thank you, may I?
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And what, in Miller's hoop dance, as she danced angular power and discipline to Bach's punctilious, predictable rhythm, was that arhythmical clicketyclacking?
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The guards were bored but punctilious, an officer must be watching them from the shed; near the stove.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
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For a punctilious lack of wit (he prefers sarcasm) and a simultaneous devotion to moralism (as opposed to morality), few can match him.
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His ‘punctilious observance of the proprieties of his medium’ gives a ‘general air of sensibility’ to his writing.
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He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
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A punctilious listing of every detail produces prose that is prolix.
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The punctilious playwright is no issue-driven browbeater; he simply loves an exchange of dialogue regardless of the subject matter's latitude.
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`I saw his picture in the Grub," he explained in his precise, punctilious voice.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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Henrietta's responses had been mostly from people in the area, who'd naturally be quickest and most punctilious about answering.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.
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On the contrary, these qualities are considered signs of assiduousness and punctiliousness.
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But the methodology is painstakingly punctilious due to the heavy editing involved.
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He became punctilious about small things-bills should be paid and returned the same day they were received-and unconcerned about large ones.
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On the contrary, it has a playful attraction to form, particularly rhyme and meter - in fact, the tighter the rules, and the more punctilious and arbitrary the enforcement, the happier nonsense is.
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Henrietta's responses had been mostly from people in the area, who'd naturally be quickest and most punctilious about answering.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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adherent" enjoyed friendly consideration, especially if he adhered faithfully; and stray attendants from other congregations were treated with punctilious hospitality, places being found for them in the Old
The Imperialist
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I should say he observed the rules punctiliously and if there has been a technical infringement I am sure he will have apologised.
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In an age when so much else has descended into degeneracy, the observance of both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday remains as punctilious as ever.
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I'm not very punctilious about putting links in my blog.
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Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say.
A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
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In the tea ceremony, the couple punctiliously distributed canned soft drinks toted in plastic shopping bags and snapped photos of each other.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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As I would expect from any chef with a season in Bibendum behind him, the basics were carefully done, the details punctiliously attended to, the whole satisfying at every level.
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He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
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A classic illustration is the fate of a hated major at Blenheim, whose grenadiers punctiliously granted his request to take his chances with enemy bullets, and only shot him after the battle was over.
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Then again, when it came to something Amis actually cared about, he could be as punctilious as the archest of oenologists.
The Hangover Artist
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As a teenager he was not particularly punctilious in following the observances of his religion.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.
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he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels
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It will also mark another milestone in the dedicated career of omniscient scorer Ian Chisholm - now in his 42nd year in the scorebox - who punctiliously keeps a book which even Bill Frindall would laud.
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A punctilious listing of every detail produces prose that is prolix.
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Where circumstances are favorable, this proclivity is apt to express itself in a certain servile devotional fervor and a punctilious attention to devout observances; it may perhaps be better characterized as devoutness than as religion.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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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
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If Janeites tend towards punctiliousness, Dickensians have a penchant for the jocose.
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On this evening, however, Warthrop became as punctilious as the fussiest quaintrelle.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette
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The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally.
