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Example sentences for: pedantic

How can you use “pedantic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
Most speakers, on most speaking occasions, should sound natural, not pedantic.
The NYT finds that in his confrontation with DOJ lead attorney David Boies, Gates was "evasive and uninformed, pedantic and taciturn," ( USAT and WSJ also opt for "evasive"), and observes that when confronted with company e-mail he'd authored, he frequently said he did not recognize the messages or recall the circumstances behind them.
Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') “agenbite (of inwit)” for remorse: till the agenseeing . But of course such bitterly pedantic wordplay would be unthinkable on the lips of the plain-spoken priest whose words give the Malle film its title and some of its poignancy.
The Dictionary of American Biography is rather more blunt: His style was too subject to his own criticism to be natural; it was selfconscious and pedantic.