martinet.

A person who demands strict obedience to rules and discipline, often inflexibly.

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Words that belong together

• a military martinet
• a petty martinet

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The martinet inspected the buttons while the roof leaked above his desk.

She refused to become a martinet merely because the workshop needed order.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Singular martinet; plural martinets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.