Maximally inflexible

Usage examples of strictest.

I had it from John Wilkes this afternoon in the strictest confidence that Ashley’s to marry Miss Melanie.

Military merit, as it is admirably expressed by Tacitus, was, in the strictest sense of the word, imperatoria virtus.

These orators, who might sometimes be compared, by themselves, and by the public, to the most celebrated of the ancient Greeks, were united by the ties of the strictest friendship.

As it was reasonably apprehended that the integrity of the judge might be biased, if his interest was concerned, or his affections were engaged, the strictest regulations were established, to exclude any person, without the special dispensation of the emperor, from the government of the province where he was born.

The ministers and generals were, in the strictest sense, the slaves of the emperor, to whose bounty they were indebted for their instruction and support.

Once Hiver Ipossession was noted, the scout ship was under the strictest orders to leave the system immediately.

Though how he managed to delude the Rothschild Personnel Bureau is a matter under the strictest scrutiny, I can assure you.

One of the strictest dictums of her profession as a microbiologist was a strict limitation of genetic manipulation.

He hadn't mentioned her participating in front of Lytol since F'lar had long ago enjoined him to the strictest secrecy about his Southern trips.

Don't start imagining the insane —he told himself severely, struggling to face the riddle with the strictest of his ruthless sense of justice.

His last descendant had made it her strictest rule that whatever else was neglected, the Taggart Bridge would always be maintained in flawless shape.

Locey, I threatened him, I pleaded, I told him that she had made it our strictest rule that Winston Station was never to be left without an extra Diesel.

Both were alike in fact as they were alike in spirit, both were in need and need was regarded as sole title to property, both were acting in strictest accordance with the same code of morality.

The strictest rule at Tara, one which she herself had made and which she rigidly enforced, was that no one should ever talk of the fine meals they had eaten in the past or what they would eat now, if they had the opportunity.

The North was determined to force the negro vote on the state and, to this end, Georgia had been declared in rebel­lion and put under the strictest martial law.