stickler

But, the Tap is just $129, which makes it a full $100 cheaper than the Blast, so if you’re not a stickler for fidelity and you don’t need the extra ruggedness offered by the UE speakers, it’s still hard to justify the extra cash.
UE Blast and Megablast review: One step closer to a perfect portable Alexa speaker|empire|June 25, 2021|Popular-Science
The outraged grammar stickler mistakes a convention for an immutable and fundamental law of the universe.
Go Ahead, End With a Preposition: Grammar Rules We All Can Live With|Nick Romeo|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her grammar is fine—Ann is a stickler for grammar—and her anecdotes make sense in that they have a beginning, a middle and an end.
Hatchet Job of the Year 2014 Shortlist Announced|The Telegraph|January 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Maybe she's a cop who is a stickler for the rules because she's trying to impress the men upstairs.
Why Crime Novelists Don't Get Women|Christopher Rice|April 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Clearly either she was not his biggest fan or she was a real stickler for rules.
Jenny Sanford Spills|The Daily Beast|February 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Here they did much of the autumn work, for Elizabeth was quite a stickler for having a common place to save something nicer.
A Little Girl in Old Salem|Amanda Minnie Douglas
Miss J. was a stickler for all forms of deference, and carried this weakness to the verge of absurdity.
The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851|Duke of Wellington
The King, outward stickler that he was for the letter of the law, had to agree.
She Stands Accused|Victor MacClure
But he is a stickler for etiquette, end the table is cleared charmingly, though with dispatch, before they are placed before him.
The Admirable Crichton|J. M. Barrie
Tunis Latham could be no stickler for quarter-deck etiquette on this voyage, that was sure.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove|James A. Cooper

British Dictionary definitions for stickler

stickler

/ (ˈstɪklə) /

noun

(usually foll by for) a person who makes insistent demandsa stickler for accuracy

a problem or puzzlethe investigation proved to be a stickler

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