Definitionn. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
Last update: October 11, 2015
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They soon discovered that the new teacher is martinet. [noun]
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Frederick, though his love of teasing for teasing's sake has been exaggerated by Macaulay, was a martinet of the first water, had a sharp though one-sided idea of justice, and had not the slightest intention of allowing Voltaire to insult or to tyrannize over his other guests and servants. [noun]
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Latham entered, so far as the limits of his work would allow, into the 1 They were drawn and engraved by Martinet, who himself began in 1787 a Histoire des oiseaux with small coloured plates which have some merit, but the text is worthless. [noun]
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It is enough to say that, under so strict a martinet as the Baron, all things were conducted in due form. [noun]
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By the ass of the Dorans you'll find I'm a martinet. [noun]
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But her martinet father immediately begins to question her, insisting on his "paternal rights." [noun]
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"Now God bless him for a tender-hearted old martinet, eh, Bo'sun."' [Please select]
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At such moments there seemed nothing surprising in her having been the daughter of a martinet. [Please select]
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