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Meanings of pedant in English
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
Personality type; person obsessed with detail or process, often negatively perceived.
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Examples for "nitpicking"
Examples for "nitpicking"
1
In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
2
Annoyed and frustrated, Ryan had passed the time nitpicking everything I said.
3
But Eco manages to make these sorts of nitpicking interludes progressively beguiling.
4
This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
5
In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
Usage of pedant in English
1
Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
2
Refined, cultured, and intelligent, he was also a pedant and a bore.
3
What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
4
The pedant-forsuch seemed to be his character in the troupe-bowed his acknowledgments.
5
You cannot speak of Tao to a pedant; his scope is too restricted.
6
It cannot be the pedant, or the conservative, or anything rash and irreverent.
7
He would study the game with a pedant's eye for detail.
8
There was nothing of the scholarly prig or pedant about him.
9
A pedant might have called it honour, but Mr. Lovel was no pedant.
10
That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician.
11
One year inspires you-fourmay get you pot-bound with pedant prejudice.
12
With all this learning, Carteret was far from being a pedant.
13
His voice was husky-his manners chilling-hisconverse that of a pedant.
14
Can you imagine a pedant, a scold, and a coquette in one woman?
15
My uncle settled into his chair, and smiled like a pedant.
16
Green, I'll punch your head for you directly, you unspeakable pedant!
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