pedantry

Example Sentences

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Such pedantry is perhaps why Malaysian durians have earned a special place on the Chinese table.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Here’s my favorite recent example of this sort of unhelpful pedantry:

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

Even now, lawmakers take this responsibility with a seriousness sometimes bordering on pedantry.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

It’s a phrase that riffs on the pedantry of bureaucratic inspection but also surveillance and state intrusion.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2020

This logician would be unbearably pedantic, but there is a grain of good taste in the pedantry.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker