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Example sentences for: pedantic

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They burrow into the arcana of their topics and inundate potential acolytes with a barrage of pedantic details.
And if agenseeing is too far-fetched and pedantic, so long is a shade too informal, slangy.
One professional British lexicographer told me, categorically, that no one uses the - tch - pronunciation in Britain, where it would be regarded as wrong or pedantic.
I am being pedantic and hypercritical, but it does seem that a book of only 63 pages could have been done a little more carefully.
John's pedantic speech is quoted accurately but characterized as a "tirade," and Reich's answer is given as the mumbling equivocation that it actually was ("John, I will get back to you with all the information on it.