pedant

Example Sentences

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As any pedant will tell you, May is not technically summer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022

“If you think of yourself as something very special, you’ll end up a pedant and a bore.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2020

The Jeffersonian journalist James Callender, after calling Adams a "repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor," was fined and sentenced to nine months in jail.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2020

Enemy Number One: The pedant or self-styled grammar snob, who has been with us for at least 400 years judging by the examples presented here, wringing his hands and lamenting the decline in linguistic standards.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2020

Hundreds of years after the first Ophelia cried “Woe is me,” only a pedant would argue that Shakespeare should have written “Woe is I” or “Woe is unto me.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner