pedant
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In Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” buffoonish actors play “the pedant, the braggart, the hedge priest, the fool, and the boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
It is completely understandable to raise concerns about a tattoo associated with the Nazi secret police; nobody should be regarded as a pedant for doing so.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
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
"I wouldn't call myself an outright pedant, but I do think where it's proper to be correct, one should be," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2019
Good luck—in the face of words so forceful—to the pedant who squawked: “Hey! Swizz! No we aren’t! That’s not the proposition to which the nation’s dedicated—and that’s not what we’re testing!”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing pedant
Fahrenheit 451
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 3
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The Taming of the Shrew
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