2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
paying careful attention to details — especially social conventions
- "As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; but his character...." said Timokhin.Book Two — 1805 (8% in)
- He is an honest and very punctilious German.Book Ten — 1812 (66% in)
There are no more uses of "punctilious" in War and Peace.
Typical Usage
(best examples)