pedantic
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The critic James Wood decried Mr. Barnes as “a thoroughly English writer,” meaning that he is clever and pedantic and emotionally repressed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025
It might sound pedantic to split hairs about the conspiracy theories that drive extremists like Mohn to do despicable things.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2024
After a slightly pedantic exchange about wording, she conceded this meant she had deleted them.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2024
Anyone who’s so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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