Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a punctilious manner; with exactness or great nicety.
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- adverb In a
punctilious manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a punctilious manner
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Examples
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Read the label punctiliously to make sure that beef and not grains are the primary source of protein.
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Read the label punctiliously to make sure that meat and not grains are the first source of protein.
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He knew the law even better than did the dogs that had known no other life, and he observed the law more punctiliously; but still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
The Call of Kind 2010
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One man turns "obsessive about his exercise program"; another, the fussbudget bachelor in "Trespass," drives a would-be girlfriend crazy by punctiliously noting their nature walks in a logbook.
Stories of Midlife Crises And Motherhood Dilemmas Sam Sacks 2011
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Young love; pageantry delivered punctiliously; and old love, too.
They're regal, resurgent and on a roll: Will and Kate lead a royal comeback 2011
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I was punctiliously exact in dealing with all the affairs of life that fell to my lot.
Chapter 29 2010
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And yet, on each such occasion, he punctiliously waits until we ask if we are to be favoured with music.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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Irène Némirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.
A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011
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Young love; pageantry delivered punctiliously; and old love, too.
They're regal, resurgent and on a roll: Will and Kate lead a royal comeback 2011
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And the Telegraph's monster front page on donations to Clegg that turned out to have been punctiliously declined?
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