pedant

Example Sentences

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“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

"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