pedantic

Example Sentences

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The critic James Wood decried Mr. Barnes as “a thoroughly English writer,” meaning that he is clever and pedantic and emotionally repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

And the percentage of gold in the portfolio is always fixed at 1/7 — or, if you are pedantic, 14.29%.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

It might sound pedantic to split hairs about the conspiracy theories that drive extremists like Mohn to do despicable things.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2024

Almost all his summer had been spent collecting pedantic data for his thesis, and now he was in a mood to think about important facts.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson