pedantry

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

Well, actually it’s just the North American division, and it also includes punctuation pedantry.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 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

He was an observational genius whose main talent was for exposure — exposure of the predictable opponent and exposure of pedantries, and he treated both as pretty much the same thing.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022

There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are vexed by pedantries that recall the précieuses of the Hôtel Rambouillet, but we know that she had the soul of the most heroic women in history.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by John Morley

I wonder sometimes if my inveterate pedantries do not amuse or, worse yet, bore you.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More

All professions alike have their besetting vices, pedantries, and infirmities.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various