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martinet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disciplinarian, moralist |
| Type of | authoritarian, dictator |
| Has types | stickler |
Examples of martinet
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One reason I like his show is it portrays him as a teacher, as well as a martinet.
From the usatoday.com
Bligh was one of the Royal Navy's most humane captains, certainly no martinet.
From the time.com
As a senior Hansell rose to cadet captain and developed a reputation as a martinet.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Macready's Mireau, an amoral martinet who cares for nothing but his own advancement.
From the online.wsj.com
The dry-goods store clerk lurks not far beneath the surface of the martinet.
From the courier-journal.com
In person, he's a casting director's dream of a parade ground martinet.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A martinet of a judge gave Jones six months for lying to investigators.
From the washingtonpost.com
No child is trained to become a martinet, and no one says anything about a master race.
From the timesunion.com
Meryl Streep plays this martinet as if she's Sister Zero Tolerance.
From the kentucky.com
- Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
- The martinet is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages (see below). It is also a term for a type of hammer in French, a diminutive of marteau (Latin martulus), "hammer".
- A strict disciplinarian; Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules
- A strict disciplinarian, a severe taskmaster, or an exacting drillmaster; eponymously after General Jean Martinet, the French inventor of a system of DRILL. ...
- A rigid military disciplinarian.
- A strict disiplinarian
