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

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

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

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