Purist

Usage examples of stickler.

It made more sense than Appleby, who was a stickler for regulations and had ordered Kraft to order Yossarian to take his Atabrine tablets on the flight overseas after Yossarian and Appleby had stopped talking to each other.

The short drop downriver to the loading wharf at Woolwich passed off uneventfully, and Lieutenant Kaye by what miracle no one knew was there before them, and had bespoke a berth and loaders, even a launch to help tow and nudge the Biter in, all sail doused beforehand, no need for kedges, all smart and shipshape enough for the greatest stickler in the land.

Later that same day, Deb was still so indignant about the cavalier treatment she had received at the hands of her injured duelist that while watching the minuets at the Assembly Room ball she was seen to openly scowl, a most unladylike expression opinioned the sticklers of Bath society, but to be excused in a Cavendish heiress worth not a guinea less than fifty thousand pounds.

Jackman once when one weaved down the fastlane and Jackman, always the stickler for adherence to the laws, had pointedly ignored it.

Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors.

Much like Lo Manto, he was not a stickler for rules and regulations, bending them to suit his needs whenever he could but always smart enough to give himself cover in an open court when called to testify.

There was obviously nothing wrong with her, but I saw at a glance that she was a precisian and would be a stickler about rules.

They are taught these things as kittens, and since cats are as great sticklers for propriety and gentle manners as any human beings can be, they never forget it.

United the two men might be in their hatred of the French, republicanism, and Catholics, but Hendon was far too much a stickler for the preeminence of rules and propriety to ever find favor with a Machiavellian schemer like Jarvis.

Lord Marlow wished for none of these things, and although he saw no harm in her alliance with young Orde, and knew their relationship to be that of brother and sister, he was easily brought to believe that it might be misunderstood by Salford, a pretty high stickler.

Findlay was one of the few of the fisher women who did not approve of conventicles, being a great stickler for every authority in the country except that of husbands, in which she declared she did not believe: a report had reached her that Lizzy was one of the lawless that evening, and in hot haste she had left the porridge on the fire to drag her home.

If he had any fault it was his being so intensely Scotch from top to toe, a Caledonian of the Caledonians, an obstinate stickler for all the ancient customs of his country.

Lieutenant Kaye's a great stickler for liberty, at least of that sort, and if you don't believe in pressing centum per cent, then he's your man, as the Irish say, for he has the air of a fellow with better things by far to do, especially if drink and whores are in the question.

Seems he was a legend in San Francisco for turning ruins into mansions, a stickler for authenticity right down to the wooden pegs and square nails.

The captain was certainly a stickler for punctuality, but whether he was such a stickler for abiding by the law was another question.