punctilious

How To Use punctilious In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• I should say he observed the rules punctiliously and if there has been a technical infringement I am sure he will have apologised.
• adherent" enjoyed friendly consideration, especially if he adhered faithfully; and stray attendants from other congregations were treated with punctilious hospitality, places being found for them in the Old The Imperialist
• Henrietta's responses had been mostly from people in the area, who'd naturally be quickest and most punctilious about answering. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
• He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.