martinet

Example Sentences

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But Laws isn’t just a martinet, or the avatar of a brutal institution.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Her father, an elegant, temperamental martinet, was controlling when he wasn’t completely absent.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2021

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

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

No martinet in the system could have put as much spit-and-polish into a surface as those robots had.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov