How To Use punctilio In A Sentence
- The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue. Rouge
- Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Complete Father Brown
- It will also mark another milestone in the dedicated career of omniscient scorer Ian Chisholm - now in his 42nd year in the scorebox - who punctiliously keeps a book which even Bill Frindall would laud.
- In the tea ceremony, the couple punctiliously distributed canned soft drinks toted in plastic shopping bags and snapped photos of each other.
- pundonor," the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes, but their pride was silent and contumelious. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
- Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say. A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
- I'm not very punctilious about putting links in my blog.
- In an age when so much else has descended into degeneracy, the observance of both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday remains as punctilious as ever.
- Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
- I should say he observed the rules punctiliously and if there has been a technical infringement I am sure he will have apologised.
