7 adjectives to describe literalness

The man carried out his order with almost alarming literalness, but Providence watched over us and we reached the Foreign Office without disaster.

Mr. Buchanan's fine denunciations of freebooters had only been fine words for the public ear; secretly he cherished a penchant for freebooters, or rather for the friends of freebooters; and, under those circumstances, to be presented, by his own agent, with the very chief of the freebooters, as a criminal and a scamp, was the most unheard-of simplicity of understanding, and the most astounding literalness of obedience, in any subordinate.

His most splendid literary feat at this period, however, was the translation of Don Quixote (1799-1801), a triumph over just those subtle difficulties which are well-nigh insurmountable, a rendering which went far beyond any mere literalness of text, and reproduced the very tone and aura of its original.

Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

He warns his readers at the outset that they must not look for a stupid literalness in his account.

" "I don't see any of it," she remarked with wholesome literalness.

7 adjectives to describe  literalness