punctilio

Example Sentences

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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 • Jan. 8, 2017

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015

Protocol, punctilio, politesse suddenly drop, leaving Tennyson’s “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 29, 2011

Diplomats who stressed punctilio, protocol and politesse were out of their class when they tangled with him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon the whole, I resolved to keep every punctilio with the governor very justly, and we found our account in it presently.

From A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Defoe, Daniel