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

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

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

I’m deeply dismayed that the perennial paragon of pedantry, George F. Will, failed at either simple arithmetic or calendar history.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

It’s a phrase that riffs on the pedantry of bureaucratic inspection but also surveillance and state intrusion.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 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