pedantic
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"Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all, envious" he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
His book, learned without being pedantic, reminds us how insistently earlier generations returned to the Revolution as a living argument—something to be invoked, revised and, at times, fought over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Arguments to the contrary are overly cautious and pedantic.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
None of this is pedantic, nor is it puffed up with moral outrage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Stripping pods is a precise and meticulous job that might be suited to pedantic dentists or finicky spice experts, but it’s a horror for an impatient teenager like me.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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