martinet

Example Sentences

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It’s the domain of Uzo Aduba’s Clyde, a glorious creation, an eatery owner of such foul temper she makes culinary martinet Gordon Ramsay seem like a veritable Mr. Rogers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021

Francis was a remarkable martinet, acting as the club’s traveling secretary and business manager.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

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

As a general, Lot seems to have been a martinet and something of a coward.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White