pedant
Example Sentences
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In Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” buffoonish actors play “the pedant, the braggart, the hedge priest, the fool, and the boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
It is completely understandable to raise concerns about a tattoo associated with the Nazi secret police; nobody should be regarded as a pedant for doing so.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
"I wouldn't call myself an outright pedant, but I do think where it's proper to be correct, one should be," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2019
Bercow grew up in London, the son of a taxi driver who was something of a language pedant.
From Washington Post • May 29, 2019
Hundreds of years after the first Ophelia cried “Woe is me,” only a pedant would argue that Shakespeare should have written “Woe is I” or “Woe is unto me.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing pedant
Fahrenheit 451
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 3
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The Taming of the Shrew
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