Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: strictures
IPA transcription: [stɹ'ɪktʃɚz]
Usage examples
  • It was Louis XII. who deserved Machiavelli's strictures for having engaged, by means of diplomatic alliances of the most contradictory kind, at one time with the Venetians' support, and at another against them, in a policy of distant and incoherent conquests, without any connection with the national interests of France, and, in the long run, without any success.