adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A punctilious attention to prayers and strict religious observance would win their indulgence.
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Careless in some situations, in others he proved punctilious .
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Certainly, some of the claims they advanced were extreme even by the standards of so punctilious an age.
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Darwin was himself something of a gourmet, also punctilious in his insistence that ties were obligatory.
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He had his team and he was too punctilious not to share his thinking with them.
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He used words handsomely, though he may have been too careful with them, a little too punctilious .
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He was a punctilious blighter and I can't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous.
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No denying the boy was dutiful and punctilious in all things, however opinionated he might be.