He makes several vapouring and rather pedantic speeches, and does nothing.

It is a rather pedantic view of certain case histories.

Whistler and Titian would be big companions indeed for the clever-mannered and rather pedantic Lalanne.

The learned, and sometimes rather pedantic Milton was also of this opinion, when he says-

This was still used as a variant of currant, though adherence to it was probably rather pedantic on Smollett's part (cf.