pedantic

Example Sentences

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None of this is pedantic, nor is it puffed up with moral outrage.

From Los Angeles Times

Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.

From Los Angeles Times

Environmental films that are pedantic, prescriptive, or hold audiences by the collar to make them feel bad do more disservice than good, he says.

From BBC

It's told in a joke, so it makes the point without being pedantic about it or anything like that.

From Salon

But as the motley group of Colorado voters who brought the case against Trump put it, you have to engage in “pedantic wordplay” to not apply Section 3 to Trump.

From Los Angeles Times