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pedant

noun as in formalist

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Call me a Limbaugh pedant, but Rush is on in the afternoon; has been for 22 years.

In a few years the girl he had married would be a plain and prickly little pedant—ill-bred besides—and he knew it.

I have not wanted friends, even among strangers, who have defended me more strongly, than my contemptible pedant could attack me.

Yes; but the Wagner sort of pedant would get entangled in his round of history—in his historical resemblances.

Aldus the younger, was a precocious scholar, of the pedant type, and under him the traditions of the family rapidly fell.

The man of routine, the mere pedant, the mere deprecator of mistakes, asks always for a precedent.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pedant, such as: bluestocking, bookworm, doctrinaire, egghead, pedagogue, and methodologist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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