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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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • Some other math professors at Brown have murmured that it's dense and pedantic almost to the point of being unusable or, as Berman warned some students, "definitely not self-serve."  (source)
    pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
  • Formality is the same thing as pedantry!  (source)
    pedantry = too much concern for formal rules
  • 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
  • All else he excluded (almost pedantically) from his memory.  (source)
    pedantically = with too much concern for details
  • Curious pedantries moved him.†  (source)
  • Latham, my sweet, I quite agree that Martin is too aggressive, thoroughly unlicked, very selfish, rather a prig, absolutely a pedant, and his shirts are atrocious.  (source)
    pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
  • And I wasn't being pedantic or quibbling.  (source)
    pedantic = excessively concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
  • This, along with his phraseology, now and then was suggestive of the grounds whereon rested that imputation of a certain pedantry socially alleged against him by certain naval men of wholly practical cast,  (source)
    pedantry = being too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
  • Pedants knew it to be an Albertasaurus but to everyone else it looked pretty much like a regular T. rex.†  (source)
    Pedants = people too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
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