Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. From LearnThat.org. [Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)]
Egregious typos in pedantic language post = auto-pwn. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Plan Getting More Popular] Reference
Not two sentences into their answer the terms pedantic and didactic were employed with professorial authority. From Wordnik.com. [Build Blog » A Vocabulary List for Architects Who Want to Get Things Built] Reference
The hatred of the pedantic is the characteristic sentiment of the time. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
It must be confessed, however, that it is generally avoided in print, while the form that we have ventured to call pedantic is not uncommon. From Wordnik.com. [Case.] Reference
Peter - Isn't the word pedantic a bit pedantic?. From Wordnik.com. [Must a Good Review Criticize?] Reference
I've heard Americans praise me because I'm so "pedantic" which I probably am, but certainly deserve no praise for it!. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Future] Reference
To be pedantic which is appropriate in the context of the discussion, the value add is actually simply price differential. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Theory] Reference
For class or order in pedantic book. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
DMorris, there's a word for your objection, and it is "pedantic". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Parramatta five-eighth Daniel Mortimer believes 'pedantic' referees are taking some of the excitement factor out of the NRL. From Wordnik.com. [Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines] Reference
He’s a kind of pedantic creationist screed machine, who generates these tedious declarations and never, ever responds to any criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Metastory: A Different View - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
He paused and blushed a little, as if he had been pedantic. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Huguenots, the atrocious witchfinders who served that pedantic. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Yet his voice when he spoke was the same dry, pedantic voice of old. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Courage] Reference
Not since James Michener's "Texas" has a Big Book dared to be so pedantic. From Wordnik.com. [Whodunit? The Japanese] Reference
Brushing aside the pedantic little protest, the emissaries laid out their case. From Wordnik.com. [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference
The play gets too explanatory, obscure, pedantic, confusing, or just plain boring. From Wordnik.com. [Lauren Gunderson: Eureka! Science Belongs On Stage] Reference
They are neither formal nor pedantic, and are as brief as is consistent with clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Shakespeare, an Englishman, routinely ridiculed his Welsh characters as pedantic windbags. From Wordnik.com. [Good To Be Grim] Reference
His State of the Union address last week was not corrective: more pedantic than inspirational. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven Help Him] Reference
This he did continuously with a pronunciation so correct and studied that it sounded pedantic. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
They have in good degree given up the pedantic follies of Latin versification and Hebrew orations. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
The latter, except in formal notes or when the title is to be emphasized, is rather stiff if not pedantic. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
It wants to be disclosed rather than imposed; it is neither stylish, nor pedantic, nor is it exhibitionistic. From Wordnik.com. [AN ITALIAN CLASSIC] Reference
The 15-year-old is obviously bright, but he launches into pedantic monologues with little regard for his listeners. From Wordnik.com. [Asperger Syndrome: Autism's Shadow] Reference
But they are at any rate so intimately connected with it that to have passed them over would have been merely pedantic. From Wordnik.com. ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference
Prior to that time an artificial and pedantic method prevailed, which received its first check from the pen of Rousseau. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The novelist makes also, like Sterne, mock-pedantic allusions, once indeed making a long citation from a learned Chinese book. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
The naïve and the pedantic and the bizarre and the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound and the puerile. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The "common life" of the Homeric poems may appeal to modern pedantic theorists, and be used by them in support of Euripidean or. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
He is not pedantic, certainly, and Lord knows he has a Clintonian capacity to absorb and articulate great masses of information. From Wordnik.com. [A President’s On-the-Job Training] Reference
I don't believe I am pedantic or narrow-minded or small-souled, but I have plenty of other faults, as you'll learn before the year is over. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
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