Meanings of somewhat pedantic in English

The note was sharp and stinging, the discourse elaborate and somewhat pedantic.

Objection has been taken to the somewhat pedantic precision of these lines.

Of his approaching end he spoke in his usual unemotional and somewhat pedantic fashion.

He had a thirst for knowledge, of which he possessed not a little, but was somewhat pedantic.

His failings, obvious enough, were the results of a strong and somewhat pedantic individuality ceaselessly at conflict with unpropitious circumstances.

The affection was, however, sincere, and the spirit noble, even though the taste which presided at these remonstrations may have been somewhat pedantic.

To the next I am indebted for good orthodox (if somewhat pedantic) ideas of fingering and phrasing, for which he was noted.

"Well, we live by the river," said Toni cheerfully, amused, as of yore, by his somewhat pedantic diction.