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Her lectures were too pedantic for my taste.pedantic = overly concerned with book learning
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Don't let grammatical pedantry obscure your authentic voice.pedantry = excessive concern with rules taught in school
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Her essay was filled with creative ideas, but it was vulnerable to pedantic nitpicking.pedantic = excessive concern with formal rules or book learning
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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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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
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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
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Formality is the same thing as pedantry! (source)pedantry = too much concern for 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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All else he excluded (almost pedantically) from his memory. (source)pedantically = with too much concern for details
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Curious pedantries moved him.† (source)
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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
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And I wasn't being pedantic or quibbling. (source)pedantic = excessively concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
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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
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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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