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

As a teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges�for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles