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Meanings of pedantry in English
Attitude; human behaviour, displaying obsession with detail or process, often negatively perceived.
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Examples for "pedantism"
Examples for "pedantism"
1
They are often timorous and apprehensive, and prone to pedantism.
2
He himself, in his habitual pedantism, thus divided them, and according placed them in three different portfolios.
3
Now began the native spleen of Oceana to be much purged, and men not to affect sullenness and pedantism.
4
Although slightly tinged with pedantism and preciosity, its freshness, its grace, its inspiration and sincerity, give it a flavour almost of primitive art.
Usage of pedantry in English
1
But there is something peculiarly laughable in the pedantry of such criticism.
2
There was no pretension or pedantry in a word that was said.
3
To the pedantry of the Hindu he attributes its main characteristics, viz.
4
But that was carrying correctness of procedure to the verge of pedantry.
5
The subject of quotation being introduced, Mr. Wilkes censured it as pedantry.
6
Foedric spoke with ease, and yet with entire absence of youthful pedantry.
7
Never was there such beautiful moralizing, equally free from pedantry or petulance.
8
I hoped you had forgotten that piece of pedantry on my part.'
9
Soukanhoff was right in warning the obsessive to beware of pedantry.
10
Not pedantry, but with the deep-lying fundamental truth that humanity ought to know.
11
Normally his conversation, both in subject-matter and in verbal form, bore towards pedantry.
12
Their writings are encumbered with the bad taste and pedantry of the time.
13
The Master said, Matter outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing matter begets pedantry.
14
There was too much pedantry in both of them and too little artistry.
15
And Mr. Leslie spares us the boredom of odious and sterile French pedantry.
16
A little, appreciative grin was all the attention the insinuation of pedantry received.
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