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too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learningIn historic literature, you may see pedant used as a synonym for school teacher.
- Her lectures were too pedantic for my taste.
pedantic = overly concerned with book learning
- Don't let grammatical pedantry obscure your authentic voice.
- Of course the man's a pedant.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- A domineering pedant o'er the boy,Shakespeare, William -- Love's Labour's Lost
- 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.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- Indeed he was more pedantic than I can represent him, and placed more scraps of Latin in his speech; but...Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
- The pedant, the braggart,William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
- The man who has risen in society is overrefined, the young scholar is pedantic.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- All else he excluded (almost pedantically) from his memory.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- His voice took on the dry, pedantic tones of Mr. Jenkins.Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
- He was a bright, free, generous spirit, he had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry, and yet he was distressfully dying.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the church.William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
- "That's all pedantry and innovation, no use listening to it," the monks decided.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- ...no pedant sophisters to confound us with unintelligible mysteries:Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- Mr. Diaz, who really needs to work on his anger management issues, yelled at me for disrupting his class with what he called my 'pedantic quibbles.'Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
- "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- to which Angus was reputed to have replied that Joseph Strorm was a flinty-souled pedant, and bigoted well beyond reason.John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- I'm just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
pedantry = excessive concern with rules taught in school
pedants = people too concerned with academic knowledge
pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
pedant = someone too concerned with book learning
pedantic = too concerned with book learning
pedantically = with too much concern for details
pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
pedantry = excessive concern for details or book learning
pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
pedantic = excessive concern with formal rules, details, or book learning
pedantry = too much concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
pedantic = excessive concern for details
pedantic = with excessive concern for formal rules, details, or book learning
pedant = someone too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning
pedantically = with too much concern for details or book learning
pedants = people too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning