pedantic

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

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

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

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

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.