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pedantic
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    His voice took on the dry, pedantic tones of Mr. Jenkins.  (source)
    pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
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    before you know it, it'll be 4 P.M. and the pedantic Dr. Dussel will be standing with the clock in his hand because I'm one minute late clearing off the table.  (source)
    pedantic = too concerned with formal rules and details
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    Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speakwrite towards him and began dictating in Big Brother's familiar style: a style at once military and pedantic, and, because of a trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them ('What lessons do we learn from this fact, comrades?')  (source)
    pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules and details
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    to which Angus was reputed to have replied that Joseph Strorm was a flinty-souled pedant, and bigoted well beyond reason.  (source)
    pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
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    Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.  (source)
    pedantic = excessive concern with book learning
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    His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.  (source)
    pedantry = too much concern for formal rules and book learning
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    The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves was that we were not important, we mustn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust-jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.  (source)
    pedants = people too concerned with academic knowledge
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    But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.  (source)
    pedantically = with too much concern for details or book learning
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    Curious pedantries moved him.†  (source)
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    This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.  (source)
    pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
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    LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?  (source)
    pedantic = excessive concern with formal rules, details, or book learning
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    Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in the old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit.  (source)
    pedantry = excessive concern with formal rules
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    I'm just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream.  (source)
    pedants = people too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
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