Sentence example with the word 'pedantic'

pedantic

academic, booky, dryasdust, flaunting, high-flowing, literary, overelaborate, precious, schoolmasterish, straight

Definition adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Last update: August 14, 2015


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Sometimes, Jason is so pedantic in writing the perfect paper that he forgets to properly manage his time.   [Please select]

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As a grammar teacher, it is hard for me to not review everything with a pedantic eye.   [Please select]

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I was too young to do more than see and note facts, and thanks to my natural indolence and that passion for the concrete, which is at once the joy and the weakness of artists, I should perhaps always have remained at that stage if my somewhat pedantic critics had not driven me to reflect and painfully search after the ultimate causes of which till then I had only grasped the effects.   [Please select]

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He had been harsh, hostile, pedantic, suspected, and detested upon that unutterable Bath and Romney trip.   [Please select]

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This apparently pedantic insistence upon the _status quo_ was extremely exasperating to Greek nationalism.   [Please select]

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It was a most superficial, pedantic, and bewildering composition.   [Please select]

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What did this pedantic interpreter of dead documents know about life.   [Please select]

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Clever persons and pedantic persons have united to find fault with certain elements of Cooper's art.   [Please select]

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Delafield was no longer dull or pedantic in her eyes.   [Please select]

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