formal

But you know none are so formal as bankers in transacting business; I intended this money for the charity fund, and I seemed to be robbing them if I did not pay them with these precise bonds.

The two ladies entered the drawing-room with that sort of official stiffness which preludes a formal communication.

This formal announcement, which implied or appeared to imply, the approval of all the persons concerned in this momentous affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readers must be admitted.

The village sergeant, a tall, formal, melancholy man, still held his vigil in the room of Fate.