pedant
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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
“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
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
A sort of intellectual warmth, the joy of the pedant who has found out some useless fact, shone through the dirt and scrubby hair.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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