pedant|pedants in English
noun
[ped·ant || 'pedənt]
meticulous person, fastidious person; strict person, fussy person; person who strictly adheres to information in books without using common sense
Use "pedant|pedants" in a sentence
1. He's an old pedant.
2. Anyway, Oliver's a pedant.
3. Only pedants believe in the advantage of obfuscation.
4. He is a perfect type of pedant.
5. This architect had been a pedant.
6. He's a great pedant, Oliver.
7. The habit of mind or manner characteristic pedant.
8. He's a bit of a pedant.
9. We at Bardolatry are not academics, scholars, pedagogues, or pedants
10. In the flesh she can be tart, a pedant even.
11. What does Academe mean? A scholar, especially a pedant
12. True pedants add the proviso that an edge can not also be a node.
13. It is the work of a pedant, and shows no originality.
14. He is a real pedant. He just echoes what the book says.
15. A man of talent is one thing , and a pedant another.
16. Only pedant spends the ten minutes between classes in his seat.
17. A Captious pedant an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for Captious
18. 14 I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
19. A pedant will always insist that you ask for 'fewer' items rather than 'less'.
20. He has been reading books all his life, and has become a pedant.
21. This old pedant is so rigid that he refuses to change his ideas.
22. The pedant likes to chant poems before his students in rhythmic measured tones.
23. I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
24. As you drill all day heap in the book, not a pedant would be odd miles.
25. He claims that he was a little pedant, even as early as the age of five.