Sentence Examples:
Had it principal industries, like any red, or green, or blue state on that pedantic map?
Many of the chapters are dry and pedantic.
If "The Antiquary" were published in these times, it would be pronounced pedantic.
He is very pedantic, but brave and gallant.
This makes the author pedantic, and at the same time difficult to understand.
Don't be afraid of being too pedantic.
Our pronunciation is founded on no pedantic rules.
You've been the dearest pupil, and forgiven me all my pedantic ways.
The phrase has unfortunately a false and pedantic sound.
If the experts attempt any pedantic interference, we will shoot the experts.
His were not the pedantic discourses students link most often to university chairs.
On the other hand, do not become pedantic, and lecture them on difficult subjects.
The criticism of the new comedy, also, seems to us somewhat pedantic.
What will become of us if we give way to this pedantic pride?
That is heavy, that is pedantic!
His mind was narrow and pedantic.
What did this pedantic interpreter of dead documents know about life?
Objection has been taken to the somewhat pedantic precision of these lines.
What comparison between his pedantic method and my glorious bursts?
Use plain words, and discard all difficult and pedantic expressions.
My sister thinks it is rather a hindrance, and is too pedantic.
We must forgive old people such pedantic observations.
For practical purposes I think they are a little pedantic.
His pedantic manner was quaint at times.
Avoid being artificial or pedantic.
His letter is long, zealous, superstitious, and, as usual, a little pedantic.
When it came to putting this into practice tones were combined in a pedantic fashion.
It seems pedantic to demand a separate proposition that Fallible is liable to error.
It would be pedantic, however, to insist always upon the latter condition.
There were no petty inquiries or pedantic regulations.
My readers must excuse this brief and somewhat pedantic geological lecture.
"We must be serious, Concha," he added with pedantic coldness.
His voice bordered on the pedantic, but his interest was plain.
There is something repulsive as well as pedantic in this art.
He paused and blushed a little, as if he had been pedantic.
The age was pedantic, and appealed too much to the authority of antiquity.
The hatred of the pedantic is the characteristic sentiment of the time.
This devotion makes them very grave, and possibly very happy after a pedantic fashion.
Your pedantic poetry isn't big enough; prose isn't big enough.
It appears formal and pedantic.
Pedantic criticism declared: "It is not fit for the stage!"
There have been many signs in our own day of its becoming narrow, pedantic, and trivial.
I do not like to be made game of, because I am aware that I am naturally pedantic.
A hard or pedantic nature cannot win them.
"The males seek the females," he said in his pedantic, monotonous voice.
It made pedantic precision and things-that-are repulsive to us.
Colbert resumed his pedantic look.
Yet his voice when he spoke was the same dry, pedantic voice of old.
He was a retiring, formal man, very much devoted to study, and somewhat pedantic.
I am sorry to say so, but you are the most pedantic genius I ever met in my life.
It was pedantic of them to split hairs over that?
They were being too pedantic.
They might suit my pedantic way of life.
The arguments are of the feeblest and most pedantic kind; but it marks a stage in taste.
This is too pedantic and not true.
The wheel, it was pointed out, is not in nature; it is a pedantic invention of man.
Somebody's pedantic improvements instead of Dryden's own text.
The demand would appear pedantic and extravagant.
There is nothing so pedantic as pretending not to be pedantic.
He would not admit his error, nor would he cease his pedantic exhibitions.
We must guard against the pedantic additions of the sixteenth century writers.
He is a pedantic ass, more in love with himself than he can ever be with anything else.
We may not teach because it is pedantic, and we may not contradict, because it is rude.
There is nothing pedantic in such preparation.
He was learned and pedantic, but lacking in energy and resolution.
There is something narrow and pedantic about their preaching.
He could bear a great deal from his pedantic mistresses, but there were limits.
Why was James the First a pedantic ass?
Anna Maria could have said nothing more pedantic, I thought.
To most men her attitude seemed pedantic and unworthy of serious attention.
You see, he's superficial and awfully pedantic.
The rules for composition there laid down are, perhaps, somewhat pedantic.
She must have thought me a pedantic owl.
He is probably like all the rest: terribly learned, awkward, pedantic, a bore.
Most of them are pedantic, and all of them are greedy for admiration.
It might be pedantic to recite the passage in the original.
He was no pedantic theologian, but a broad, liberal-minded man of the world.
Your uncle is now and then pedantic, but one could only feel respect for him to-day.
"Of all things I hate pedantic learning."
This is a little pedantic.
"Yet a most unfitting moment for pedantic compliments," Mlle.
These peculiar circumstances gave a pedantic tone to the discussion of the problem.
She had thought it out with perfect fairness, with an almost pedantic precision.
It is a pleasant, lively sketch, spiced with learning but without pedantic lead.
The order in the country and the army was pedantic; the customs were Spartan.
He never laughed at it as odd or pedantic.
If it wasn't quite so perfect it would be pedantic now.
This, too, was a studied phrase, brought out with pedantic decision.
He resented them as intruders and focused a pedantic wrath on them.
It is pedantic to have read them, and we are proud to know them only by reputation.
Does this strike you as pedantic?
She knew the depth of sincerity which was sometimes obscured by his pedantic phrases.
His style is highly pedantic, and the reader would scarcely thank me for a specimen.
Isn't it being the least bit pedantic?
It lacks a certain pedantic and scientific form.
With others, this regard for the letter makes conduct formal and pedantic.
And our aversion is not due to any pedantic insistence on the dignity of the art.
He had no accent of any kind, though his English was a trifle pedantic and scholarly.
Probably the pedantic rules about drinking cause more suffering than anything else.
He almost always blinked twice when she began sounding pedantic like that.