Strict disciplinarian's right to set about wayward inmate? Just the opposite

Usage examples of martinet.

He was clearly a martinet and no enlisted man was going to question his orders.

Less than ten days earlier, a martinet of a Chief Commissioner, who did not approve of inspectors of the old school, had asked him to resign--to retire early, as he more elegantly put it--on the pretext of some rash act the Superintendent was supposed to have committed.

If that martinet of a Chief Commissioner could see Maigret now, he would probably have accused him of doing a job unworthy of a superintendent.

Jeff imagined her arse being taught a lesson by the martinet he kept in his bedroom cupboard.

He smiled, appearing very different from the stiff martinet of seconds ago.

He began to picture the possibilities of his own situation here, where a suspicious martinet was in command.

That petty officers with records as martinets and incompetents are suddenly promoted to quadrant leaders?

My English teacher, a tiny, shriveled martinet, sent terror into my soul for a dangling participle or an incorrectly parsed sentence.

The sergeant played the role of martinet extremely well, abiding no goldbricking from his men.

A company called the Science News Service bought the rights to Interlingua, a language constructed by the International Auxiliary Language Association under the direction of linguists Andre Martinet and Alexander Code.

These irregular troops of horse might be criticised by martinets and pedants, but they contained some of the finest fighting material in the army, some urged on by personal hatred of the Boers and some by mere lust of adventure.

About eleven the infantry began to go forward with an advance which would have astonished the martinets of Aldershot, an irregular fringe of crawlers, wrigglers, writhers, crouchers, all cool and deliberate, giving away no points in this grim game of death.

That petty officers with records as martinets and incompetents are suddenly promoted to quadrant leaders?

The steward trotted through winding aisles of bales and crates, turned a corner, darted up a gangplank to the main-deck of a small steam vessel, so excessively neat and smart with shining brightwork that Lanyard thought it one uncommon tender indeed, and surmised a martinet in command.

Surprised at how difficult it was for him to bid farewell to Sheena, Grant returned to the infirmary where he and Karlstad stood patiently for a final checkup by the little martinet who headed the medical staff.