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
Last week, as Fanfani took the desk, he moved with the smooth punctilio that Italians appreciate and practice.
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
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