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From included streaming options to a few inches in diagonal length, shopping for a new TV can be a bit pedantic.
THE BEST 70-INCH TVS OF 2022CURTIS SILVERJUNE 2, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCEThese details can sound pedantic, but they can make a huge difference in day-to-day use.
THE BEST BATTERY BACKUPS TO KEEP YOUR GEAR UP AND RUNNINGTERRY SULLIVANSEPTEMBER 10, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEPedantic, unimaginative and presumptuous, Theobald was the logical choice for a Dunce King in 1728.
A LETTER FROM MR. CIBBER TO MR. POPECOLLEY CIBBERA pedantic fellow called for a bottle of hock at a tavern, which the waiter, not hearing distinctly, asked him to repeat.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSHe is no longer pedantic; he no longer makes vulgar allusions, but only fears that they might be made.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S INTRODUCTION TO PAMELASAMUEL RICHARDSONThe ages in which they flourished attached no value to pedantic displays of learning paraded in foot-notes.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDThere was Sir James Smith, the botanist, made much of and really not pedantic and vulgar like the rest, but weak and irritable.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIEI do not like to be made game of, because I am aware that I am naturally pedantic.
PAUL PATOFFF. MARION CRAWFORDHe is, upon the whole, a very worthy man, though rather pedantic in his way.
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTIt is due to two causes—the natural development of the language, and the pedantic interference of the learned.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANNWORDS RELATED TO PEDANTIC
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- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
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