punctilio

Example Sentences

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Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo once described the standard of a fiduciary’s conduct to be “something stricter than the morals of the marketplace. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive.”

From Washington Post

They combined, then as now, a wild bureaucratic adherence to punctilio and procedure with entanglements of cohort and clan that could shortcut the procedure in a moment.

From The New Yorker

There lingers, even in our mercantile age, an admiration for the aristocratic ethos, the punctilio, of the duel.

From Washington Post

Contestants smiled and struggled as they spelled words like “philhellenism” and “punctilio” to move on to the next round.

From Time

Disobedience was heresy, and Rome, for a century, endeavored to convulse Europe on this simple punctilio.

From Project Gutenberg