pedantry in English

noun

1

excessive concern with minor details and rules.

to object to this is not mere pedantry

synonyms: dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism, overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness, captiousness, quibbling, hair-splitting, casuistry, sophistry, nitpicking

noun

dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism, overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness, captiousness, quibbling, hair-splitting, casuistry, sophistry, nitpicking

Use "pedantry" in a sentence

1. His attitude savors of pedantry.

2. Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

3. 18 Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

4. A pedantry scholar saw ask: " Where is your brother? "

5. The book is a demonstration of scholarship without pedantry.

6. Do not be deceived by the pedantry of dates.

7. Governmental organizations are too pedantry, with slavish attention to rules.

8. He had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry.

9. There was a hint of pedantry in his elegant style of speaking.

10. Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.

11. He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.

12. RIPLEY The two former are decidedly open to the charges of pedantry, Artificiality, heaviness

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14. Dinah, Attainted and convicted of pedantry, because she spoke grammatically, was nicknamed the Sappho of Saint-Satur

15. 10 As a bel esprit he despised pedantry whether in a man or in a bluestocking.

16. 9 Maud talked with a mixture of pedantry and horse sense that impressed him as singular and forcible.

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18. Against the first objection, I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry.

19. Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.

20. The speeches amazed listeners with their conversational tone and freedom from the expected pedantry, and nor did they Bloviate, in the usual manner of the stump.

21. The reason for my pedantry over the title of this newly created role is that the job has been jovially referred to across the media as a 'Twitter Tsar'.

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