pedant

Example Sentences

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However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.

From New York Times

To please the pedants among you the original phrase "winter of our discontent" comes from the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III.

From BBC

Once, having demanded that a headline combine several complex elements in a short word count, he found the result wanting: “As if written by pedants from Mars,” he declared.

From New York Times

Her Timlin is a squeaky-voiced pedant whose awkwardness masks personal and professional ambitions, as well as a lust for Saul that briefly threatens to transform “Crimes of the Future” into a triangle.

From Los Angeles Times

As any pedant will tell you, May is not technically summer.

From Washington Post