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
Her father, an elegant, temperamental martinet, was controlling when he wasn’t completely absent.
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2021
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
Several celebrated actresses, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Angela Lansbury, turned down the part of Nurse Ratched, a martinet who tried to keep the men in her ward sedated and under control.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2018
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
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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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