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Use pedantically in a sentence

Definition of pedantically:

  • (adverb) In a pedantic manner

Sentence Examples:

Grant that it may be, and often is, mechanically or pedantically pursued.

It is true that this canon must not be received pedantically.

Whether he was pedantically profound in the law or not might be an open question.

Don't be so pedantically truthful, Molly.

Donne as usual is pedantically accurate in the details of his metaphor.

Pedantically it is a principle because it is a prime factor.

"Children of my age do not read," she instructed pedantically.

We do not use the word so pedantically down here.

He was always pedantically accurate.

He spoke pedantically, and I began to think he might be a real professor, after all.

Under this secular armor discussion proceeded pedantically, with measured steps.

Most revolutions began by being quite pedantically abstract.