disciplinarian
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The family was conservative; her dad, a disciplinarian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
In later years, Buhari attributed his disciplinarian bent to spending his formative years at boarding school, where corporal punishment was the norm, and in the military.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 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
He was very much a disciplinarian, and he regimented our coming and going.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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