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Stickler

One who stickles.

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Disciplinarian 76% connected

Pertaining to discipline.

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Martinet 76% connected

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fix…

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Moralist 76% connected

One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.

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Stickle 74% connected

To separate combatants by intervening.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Stickle 74% connected

To separate combatants by intervening.

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