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Example sentences for: pedant

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In fact, the script is a model of research and construction, a real summa cum laude effort from the school of screenplay pedant Robert McKee.
If an American writer quotes a British speaker as saying, “Honor thy father,” it would be arrant nonsense for some pedant to say, “If he is British, he did not say that.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.
Which leads me to: a prig “irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree,” while a pedant “unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation of knowledge.”
Once again the historical pedant, he explained why the Clinton campaign-finance scandal--which he previously called merely "worse than Watergate"--is actually tantamount to the fall of Rome.