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PUNCTILIOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does punctiliously mean?
• PUNCTILIOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb PUNCTILIOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a punctilious manner
Familiarity information: PUNCTILIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a punctilious manner
Context example:
he launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels
Pertainym:
punctilious (marked by precise accordance with details)
Context examples
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.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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