pedantry

Example Sentences

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Such pedantry is perhaps why Malaysian durians have earned a special place on the Chinese table.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Here’s my favorite recent example of this sort of unhelpful pedantry:

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

Even now, lawmakers take this responsibility with a seriousness sometimes bordering on pedantry.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

Well, actually it’s just the North American division, and it also includes punctuation pedantry.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

Winston Churchill did not, as legend has it, reply to an editor who had corrected his prose with “This is pedantry up with which I will not put.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker