14 examples of punctiliousness in sentences

Both the French and the Italians combine natural and easy good manners with great punctiliousness in small matters of etiquette.

He was the very personification of punctiliousness and always displayed sublime imperturbability in exigencies of great moment.

By reserving for Eveena the place among the cushions immediately on my left, I made to the assembled household the expected announcement that she was to be regarded as mistress of the house; feminine punctiliousness on points of domestic precedence strikingly contrasting the unceremonious character of intercourse among men out of doors.

" Marian rose with great dignity, and addressed the chair and the ladies and gentlemen with true parliamentary punctiliousness.

ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto [Lat.], punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness.

She had devoted herself to Moppet with politic punctiliousness.

Becquer, with extreme punctiliousness, tendered his resignation as censor of novels.

To do over again (as though the work had never been attempted) what has been done once for all accurately and well, would be mere prudery of punctiliousness.

This punctiliousness cost him his dinner once.

He could not understand my sudden punctiliousness as to times and seasons, and I was afraid I should have to tell him plainly that only over my lifeless body should he succeed in investing the contents of the safe.

This was doubtless due to his own punctiliousness and thorough devotion to system as well as to his often baffled wish to diversify his crops and upbuild his fields.

Their dinners were served with as much punctiliousness as if the lordliest guests were present; their dancing parties, while somewhat barren of guests, were never dull for longer than ten minutes after they opened.

Those who are familiar with the vanity and punctiliousness on points of etiquette of the chieftains of the Hindoo Khoosh will easily conceive how much depended upon the wording of this letter.

He was an efficient clerk; the buttons who opened the room door, a goose-stepping, alert sprout of German militarism, exhibiting a punctiliousness of attention which produced a further effect of normality.

14 examples of  punctiliousness  in sentences