pedantic

Example Sentences

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Pedantic jobsworths are like people who eat and talk at the same time: it’s better to stand by their side than face them head on.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2014

Pedantic Brahms would raise an eyebrow at Ormandy's changes of tempo, but he would find it pretty good music just the same.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Holmesy, someday you’re going to win the Nobel Prize for Being Incredibly Pedantic, and I’m going to be so proud of you.”

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

And woe to him the Statesman cold or blind, Of clutching spirit or of chilling mind, Pedantic prig or purse-string tightening fool, Who'd check such work and such a spirit cool!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various

Pedantic work, if you like, laboured literary exercises, and yet full of the freshness and the vigour which spring from the Latin itself.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan