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in a punctilious manner
he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels
How To Use punctiliously In A Sentence
- 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.
- In the tea ceremony, the couple punctiliously distributed canned soft drinks toted in plastic shopping bags and snapped photos of each other.
- I should say he observed the rules punctiliously and if there has been a technical infringement I am sure he will have apologised.
- 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
- he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels
- 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.
- 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.
- Given the circumstances, his behaviour to Laura had been punctiliously correct.
- 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
- I tried conversation with our host, but with the barrier of language and Mohammed slowly, punctiliously translating, it was halting.