punctiliousness

Example Sentences

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In the perverse context of 2020, the unexciting vision of the federal government functioning as it’s supposed to, with a punctiliousness that can only be called bureaucratic, is strangely soothing.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2020

Meyer’s punctiliousness took hold when he was in his late teens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2016

Even for the non-specialist, it’s impossible to thumb through “Fine Lines” without catching an infectious sense of punctiliousness married to passion.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

But with Coughlin about to coach in his fourth conference championship game Sunday, which puts him one victory from a second Super Bowl appearance, it seems time to appraise him for more than his punctiliousness.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2012

In Europe it has its extreme in the court etiquette; in America, in the punctiliousness of the higher social classes of our large cities.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)