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  • noun Plural form of punctilio.

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Examples

  • Strict attention to these little punctilios is all important, and their non-observance is always a subject of comment, and frequently determines your position in society.

    A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873

  • I am one of your children, after a fashion; I am sure you care for me more as if I were a daughter than as a woman cares for her friend, and the real sympathy between us is when you forget all the usual 'punctilios' between grown-up people, and think of me as of a child, to be taken care of and not be allowed to get into mischief.

    Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

  • I am ready at all times to do what essential services I can, but such punctilios I do not like nor expect from a man of genius.

    Letter 59 2009

  • This ticks many of my fictional boxes: court intrigue, conspiracy, murder and mayhem, a clear and distinct society with its own punctilios and protocols.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

  • This ticks many of my fictional boxes: court intrigue, conspiracy, murder and mayhem, a clear and distinct society with its own punctilios and protocols.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Tim Stretton 2009

  • These punctilios of the Desert are peculiarly nice and tetchy; nor do strangers readily realise them.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Adams avoided seeing the work in progress for fear of upsetting the artist with a chance remark, but Roosevelt, unfettered by such punctilios, insisted on having a look.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • 'Mandlebert is a creature whose whole composition is a pile of accumulated punctilios.

    Camilla 2008

  • Adams avoided seeing the work in progress for fear of upsetting the artist with a chance remark, but Roosevelt, unfettered by such punctilios, insisted on having a look.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • I have sent to Dartmouth a sight of noblemen and gentlemen, maybe a half-hundred; and Valdez himself, who when I sent my pinnace aboard must needs stand on his punctilios, and propound conditions.

    Westward Ho! 2007

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