martinet

• You may depend upon it the old gentleman is a strict martinet, and rules his household with a rod of iron. —  Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
• He dominated Tammany like a martinet, naming its tickets, selecting its appointees, and outlining its policies. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• They regarded him as a bloodthirsty martinet, and listened too credulously to all silly stories of his weakness and severity that were current, in the army and out. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
• But Rodetzsky is a martinet, and if he were here just now the man would be in trouble What has he been doing?" —  In Direst Peril
• He was what we term a martinet. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer

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