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• When provoked, Greg can become downright pedantic.2015, Dane Mc Caslin, A Bird in the Hand, →ISBN. From the entry pedanticness
• The subs spent a pedantic hour arguing over whether a doughnut is a cake, a pastry or a dessert.2014, Stella Newman, A Pear Shaped Christmas, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry duffin
• What I might call pedantic research to answer the questions that our first witness has to have each year.1975, Agricultural Research and Development, Special Oversight Hearings, Part II: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research…. From the entry pedantics
• To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness.1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 11. From the entry unacquainted
• It will almost certainly be preferred in this country and in America, where candelae would be deemed pedantic.[1949, “Some New Terms in Photometry and Illumination”, in Light and Lighting and Environmental Design, “The Candela”, page 155, column 2. From the entry candelae
• On the other hand, don’t be pedantic—if you want to come into this school of modernized medical English.1921 March, “How to Prepare a Medical Article”, in The American Journal of Surgery, volume XXXV, number 3, page 69. From the entry fenestrum
• Le bon sens served Voltaire well: it enabled him to discredit much clerical propaganda and a good many naive and pedantic absurdities.2013, Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press…. From the entry oxblood
• There is a distinction that should be made between the familiar verb "name" versus, what may seem pedantic to the casual user, "nomenclate".2004, Seymour B. Elk, A New Unifying Biparametric Nomenclature that Spans all of Chemistry: The science of incorporating daily over 2,000…. From the entry nomenclate
• Laughlin was the only one in a movie party who detested the second male lead—"I regarded him as overserious, pedantic, a stuffed shirt."1952 May 26, “Medicine: Mind Matters”, in Time, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2012. From the entry stuffed shirt
• “The lesson of history instructs us in the path of the future.’ I sounded like one of my recent professors, pedantic but confident in my surmission.2003, Martin Booth, Islands of Silence, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry surmission
• The music of his speech was pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic, as if the soul of an Oxford don had been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a boy.2015, Steve Silberman, “Introduction”, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New…. From the entry don

Meaning of pedantic

1. adjective Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
2. adjective Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.

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How do you use pedantic in a sentence?

Pedantic is used as an adjective. For example: “Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg).”

What is a short sentence with pedantic?

“When provoked, Greg can become downright pedantic.”

What does pedantic mean?

Pedantic means being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.