unpunctiliousadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˌpʌŋ(k)ˈtɪlɪəs/, U.S. /ˌənˌpəŋ(k)ˈtɪliəs/ Not punctilious.
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unpunctilious1753
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xxiii. 235 Lovers, said she, are the weakest people in the world; and people of punctilio the most un-punctilious.
1790 A. Bicknell Painting Personified I. x. 186 With the same unpunctilious Sang froid that the Emperor Vespasian received the ludicrous Tax he had laid on the saline Secretion of the People of Rome.
1871 Belgravia Sept. 284 Unpunctilious callers were apt to forget the particular card due to her.
1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 Jan. The Apostrophe's R Us Diploma, for unpunctilious punctuation... ‘Standardized Test's.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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