pedant

Example Sentences

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In order to put the pedant on permanent display, the museum had to pay a reward to the metal detectorist who made the discovery and the owner of the land it was found on.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Poor Sheila, stuck next to this humorless pedant.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

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

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