stickler

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Editorial note

He's a stickler for detail and writes beautiful code.

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someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

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noun

someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stickler.

noun

someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

Example sentences

He's a stickler for detail and writes beautiful code.

If you want to be a stickler on significant figures, it's actually 2,000 qps.

I offer up this little item since I'm a bit of a stickler for applications using proper grammar.

+1We ensure that React is advanced mode compatible and people routinely get pissed at me because I'm a stickler for bytes.

I don't mean to be a stickler, but this is an egregious example of editorializing in the title.

Imagine what they could be doing for you if they worked the rest of the week!Even if you're not a stickler about hours, you want people to be giving you their best effort.

They're clear addons or a shareware model of an otherwise good game, rather than "this game will progress untolerably slowly unless you pay"—I'm not a stickler on principle.

Likely the stickler is going to be immigration status, since without a work-capable visa you can't meaningfully participate in a startup.

Despite being a stickler for grammar rules myself, if I don't proofread my writing, there are bound to be plenty of grammar errors and typos that pop up, especially if my brain is really flying with ideas and my fingers are struggling to keep up.