pedantic
Example Sentences
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By taking on Brontë’s book, Fennell was doomed to stare down millions of overly pedantic literature sticklers, people who prefer their adaptations pure and untainted.
From Salon
The critic James Wood decried Mr. Barnes as “a thoroughly English writer,” meaning that he is clever and pedantic and emotionally repressed.
“At best they are being incredibly pedantic. At worst, intentionally daft.”
From Los Angeles Times
And the percentage of gold in the portfolio is always fixed at 1/7 — or, if you are pedantic, 14.29%.
From MarketWatch
None of this is pedantic, nor is it puffed up with moral outrage.
From Los Angeles Times
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