martinet
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Fred Trump, according to Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote the president’s book “The Art of the Deal,” was “a very brutal guy” — a martinet of a father who shipped his son off to military school.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
Bedecked in a three-piece suit and gripping a baseball bat in his hands, he struck the stance of a martinet for a portrait that ran on the cover of Time magazine in 1988.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2020
In comparison, Schultz comes off as less of a martinet and more of a prig in the trial transcripts.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2020
Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
I don’t think this is too strictly enforced except when the place is run by an obsessive martinet like Amadeus von Linden.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing martinet
Unit 1: Telling Details
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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