pedant
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Today, the pair stand as timely avatars of our contemporary crises — Wally the Milquetoast and André the Pedant, chronically overthinking about overthinking.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021
At the risk of being Pedant of the Week, I have to say that the worst formulation of all, already many times repeated elsewhere, is that “Djokovic was defaulted.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2020
At the Apple iBooks store The Brooklyn Follies was £6.49, The Pedant in the Kitchen was £8.99, while 11.22.63 and The Bourne Identity were both £4.99.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2012
When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I have as good a right to make a Word, he insisted, “as that Pedant Bigot Cynic and Monk.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing pedant
Fahrenheit 451
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The Taming of the Shrew
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