disciplinarian
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The family was conservative; her dad, a disciplinarian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Barry Hearn said Eubank Sr, who he promoted for a number of years, was a "very strict disciplinarian as a father".
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025
Children, according to the old disciplinarian maxim, should be seen and not heard.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2023
Casting himself as a teacher, he often was more bully than counselor, more screamer than lecturer, more heavy-handed disciplinarian than instructor.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
But the reason for the class’s “ooo” had to do with his real job: vice principal in charge of discipline—in short, the school’s disciplinarian.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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