noun
definition
A strict disciplinarian.
definition
Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
Examples of martinet in a Sentence
I don't know where he is, you interfering martinet.
Janeway often finds unorthodox solutions to problems; this is no Starfleet martinet.
He was not a bigot, but a martinet.
Latham entered, so far as the limits of his work would allow, into the 1 They were drawn and engraved by Martinet, who himself began in 1787 a Histoire des oiseaux with small coloured plates which have some merit, but the text is worthless.
Frederick, though his love of teasing for teasing's sake has been exaggerated by Macaulay, was a martinet of the first water, had a sharp though one-sided idea of justice, and had not the slightest intention of allowing Voltaire to insult or to tyrannize over his other guests and servants.
The plates, which show no improvement in execution on those of Martinet, are after drawings by Huet and Pretre, the former being perhaps the less bad draughtsman of the two, for he seems to have had an idea of what a bird when alive looks like, though he was not able to give his figures any vitality, while the latter simply delineated the stiff and dishevelled specimens from museum shelves.
It was a time of government on martinet principles, under which all freedom of thought and all private initiative were as far as possible suppressed vigorously by the administration.
The greatest martinet in the Army in his day, and it was a day of rough language, too.
In all of the video games where Mario speaks, voice actor Charles Martinet is the man behind the moustache.The theme to Super Mario Bros. is one of the most recognizable songs in the world.