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

"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

Bercow grew up in London, the son of a taxi driver who was something of a language pedant.

From Washington Post • May 29, 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