When playing a game, he is a stickler for the rules. From LearnThat.org.
A stickler for promptness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The main stickler is that by the end of the book, the reader is left without a sense of closure. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds] Reference
Diane Groomes was known as a stickler for the rules City Desk. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 24, 2010] Reference
Harvard Law graduate who was known as a stickler for detail while a lawyer in private practice. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Now the only stickler is that it just so happens she’s out of town on business this week and doesn’t know she’s switching. From Wordnik.com. [My wife is switching to Apple OS X, she just doesn’t know it yet! — Meandering Passage] Reference
The 'stickler' in your picture knows not what he does. From Wordnik.com. [بالاترین] Reference
Mr. Valukas was comfortable in his role as stickler. From Wordnik.com. [Lehman's Accidental Historian] Reference
Sweeny, the stage manager, was a stickler for realism. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Bellomont, a great stickler for the Lancastrian family. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
"He has the reputation of being a stickler for justice.". From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Ruth was a stickler for the established order of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas] Reference
For I am not a bit partic'ler and I never was a stickler. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
He was a slave of habit, a stickler for scrupulous tidiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
"Nearer five year," put in Cap'n Joab, a stickler for facts. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
It makes perfect sense even if you're a stickler for realism. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Once' and Future Musical] Reference
That word "consecutive" in the proof law was an awful stickler. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Richard Burke was a stickler for early rising, and admitted no excuses. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
This was a strenuous day's work, particularly if the star was a stickler. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
She always chooses mid-chew as a good time for stories, but I am a stickler. From Wordnik.com. [The Dying Tradition] Reference
Brill encouraged investigative reporting, and was a stickler for thoroughness. From Wordnik.com. [Sudden Exit Of A Would-Be Mogul] Reference
Nor, it must be admitted, was she herself any pronounced stickler for exactitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
He had a reputation as a disciplinarian and was a stickler for personal appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Leonard Skinner, 77, gym teacher and namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd band, dies] Reference
Thirty-ninth Regiment, and that officer was a great stickler for military etiquette. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
I don't know how it is with you, Warlock, but I'm a great stickler for the formalities. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
The stickler for uniformity will lament this diversity, but it is probably a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
He was the firm's craftsman, a stickler for detail who always outprepared the opposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery Of The White House Suicide] Reference
But I ain't such a stickler for sharp-edged goodness myself nor in any way at all virtuous. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
This was a stickler, but having gone so far with our plans we were reluctant to abandon them. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
He's a stickler for balanced budgets and worked hard to reach them during his tenure in Montpelier. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: Howard Dean Grapples For Dems' Attention] Reference
Even Penny Crain, thorny little stickler for fair play that she was, relaxed with a tremulous sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
"The shows what a stickler for detail the IRS has to be when it comes to donations," Ms. Labant says. From Wordnik.com. [Attention, Philanthropists: Your Tax Exemption Is at Risk] Reference
I'm a big stickler for outward visibility, and I always admired the Forester for being uniquely easy to see out of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Picks: Small SUVs, part 2] Reference
Mehlman is a tough, unsentimental guy — a stickler for detail who is also eager to deal in big ideas and big issues. From Wordnik.com. [Bush = Truman?] Reference
"The map or the oiled-silk package?" asked Mr. Damon, who, once having been a businessman, was sometimes a stickler for small points. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
My father, normally a stickler for restaurant propriety, pulled out a transistor radio, placed it on the table and turned on the ballgame. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Family Traditions] Reference
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