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stickler

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Noun
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stick=ler

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stickler has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sticklern. [See Stickle, v. t.].
     One who stickles.  [1913 Webster]
    "Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey."  [1913 Webster]
    "Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war,
    First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stickler, n. (foll. by for) a person who insists on something (a stickler for accuracy).

Etymology
obs. stickle be umpire, ME stightle control, frequent. of stight f. OE stiht(i)an set in order

THESAURUS

stickler

Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, ass, autarch, autocrat, bigot, bitter-ender, bullethead, caesar, captious critic, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, diehard, disciplinarian, dogmatist, donkey, driver, duce, fanatic, hard master, hardnose, intransigeant, intransigent, last-ditcher, martinet, maverick, mule, nitpicker, oligarch, oppressor, perfectionist, perverse fool, pharaoh, pighead, positivist, precisian, precisianist, purist, slave driver, standpat, standpatter, tyrant, usurper, warlord

ROGET THESAURUS

stickler

Obstinacy

N obstinacy, obstinateness, obstinacy, tenacity, cussedness, perseverance, immovability, old school, inflexibility, obduracy, obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side, self-will, contumacy, perversity, pervicacy, pervicacity, indocility, bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism, opiniatry, opiniativeness, fixed idea, fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness, mule, opinionist, opinionatist, opiniator, opinator, stickler, dogmatist, bigot, zealot, enthusiast, fanatic, obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened, inflexible, balky, immovable, unshakable, not to be moved, inert, unchangeable, inexorable, mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed, dogged, sullen, sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected, willful, self-willed, perverse, resty, restive, restiff, pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly, heady, headstrong, entete, contumacious, crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted, prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed, infatuated, stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted, hard-mouthed, hidebound, unyielding, impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible, unpersuadable, intractable, untractable, incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason, crotchety, obstinately, non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie.

Severity

N severity, strictness, harshness, rigor, stringency, austerity, inclemency, arrogance, precisianism, arbitrary power, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression, assumption, usurpation, inquisition, reign of terror, martial law, iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway, tight grasp, brute force, brute strength, coercion, strong hand, tight hand, hard lines, hard measure, tender mercies, sharp practice, pipe-clay, officialism, tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture, accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors, severe, strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative, coercive, tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial, inclement, cruel, haughty, arrogant, precisian, severely, with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, manu forti, ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno.

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