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martinet
[ mahr-tn-et, mahr-tn-et ]
noun
- a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules.
martinet
/ ËŒ³¾É‘˳Ùɪˈ²ÔÉ›³Ù /
noun
- a person who maintains strict discipline, esp in a military force
Derived Forms
- ËŒ³¾²¹°ù³Ù¾±Ëˆ²Ô±ð³Ù¾±²õ³¾, noun
- ËŒ³¾²¹°ù³Ù¾±Ëˆ²Ô±ð³Ù¾±²õ³ó, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¾²¹°ùt¾±Â·²Ô±ð³Ùi²õ³ó adjective
- ³¾²¹°ùt¾±Â·²Ô±ð³Ùi²õ³¾ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of martinet1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of martinet1
Example Sentences
Van Zweden, in turn, was a martinet specialist in the standards who seemed appealing as an about-face from Gilbert, less electric in the core repertory.
That the legendary anti-interventionist Taft supported a vain martinet whose tirades included lobbying for nuclear war suggests he might have been less than a rock-solid man of principle.
But Laws isn’t just a martinet, or the avatar of a brutal institution.
As are the old-fashioned words — like “martinet,†“popinjay†and “annealed†— that Galloway sprinkles through the text, the way Leigh strewed the beloved posies from her various country estates.
Purge school boards of the sort of bluenose martinet who thinks you should teach the Holocaust — the Holocaust! — without painful words and images.
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