martinet

Example Sentences

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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

Murdoc, the bassist, mastermind and martinet, was a hybrid of Keith Richards and Lurch, the manservant from “The Addams Family” cartoons.

From Economist • Jul. 5, 2018

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

The Quiet One was replaced with a man who was a vicious martinet.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela