Example sentences for: pedantry

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

  • As for me, I hope that my nitpicking through the articles you publish in VERBATIM demonstrates the consideration I think due these articles rather than envy and pedantry.

  • [We would not dare to disagree, but the distinction between enclosed [herein] and enclosed herewith seems a finicky needle's-eye of pedantry, and it smacks of “reconstruction” of something that was never structured to begin with.

  • The last-named book is largely a spoof on linguistic pedantry, and I fear that Saussy III has been drawn in.

  • "GEORGE BUSH!" roared the press corps, delighted to detect such an elemental boo-boo in the professor's usually unassailable pedantry.

  • Certainly it is no passing fad, dependent on vogue words, for despite its infancy it employs such age-old terms as alas, albeit, perforce , and withal . Nor it can be taxed with pedantry, demonstrably, for on occasion it makes use of colloquial expressions like for starters, likewise, for sure , and no doubt about it . Above all, though some people might think otherwise, it definitely does not involve clichés.


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