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A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.

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        Personality type; person obsessed with detail or process, often negatively perceived.

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              Examples for "scholastic"
              Examples for "scholastic"
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              Let the scholastic seniors of this great nation think whatever they wanted.
              Timescape
              2
              The following table shows the relative scholastic standing of smokers and non-smokers:
              How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
              3
              He has read neither the classical nor the scholastic interpreters of mysticism.
              Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
              4
              Other scholastic honors fell to him in due course and good measure.
              Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
              5
              Pronunciation is scholastic, relating to the word accent and the vowel sound.
              Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
              1
              I found it in the library, of course, bookworm that I am.
              Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across italy,...
              2
              For the rest, he was a bookworm and revelled in intellectual pursuits.
              A Little Girl in Old Salem
              3
              Magistra, we are facing a bookworm infection unlike any I have known.
              Spellwright
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              Old bookworm Fraser does not leave the 'Folly' once in six months.
              A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
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              On the gate, the two guards were discussing an ongoing bookworm infection.
              Spellwright
              Uso de pedant en inglés
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              Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
              The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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              Refined, cultured, and intelligent, he was also a pedant and a bore.
              The monster of florence
              3
              What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
              The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I...
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              The pedant-forsuch seemed to be his character in the troupe-bowed his acknowledgments.
              Captain Fracasse
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              You cannot speak of Tao to a pedant; his scope is too restricted.
              The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
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              It cannot be the pedant, or the conservative, or anything rash and irreverent.
              Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
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              He would study the game with a pedant's eye for detail.
              The Guardian
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              There was nothing of the scholarly prig or pedant about him.
              Essays on Scandinavian Literature
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              A pedant might have called it honour, but Mr. Lovel was no pedant.
              The Path of the King
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              That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Corinthians, Galatians, a...
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              One year inspires you-fourmay get you pot-bound with pedant prejudice.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
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              With all this learning, Carteret was far from being a pedant.
              Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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              His voice was husky-his manners chilling-hisconverse that of a pedant.
              A Love Story
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              Can you imagine a pedant, a scold, and a coquette in one woman?
              Thaddeus of Warsaw
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              My uncle settled into his chair, and smiled like a pedant.
              A conspiracy of paper: a novel
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              Green, I'll punch your head for you directly, you unspeakable pedant!
              The Obstacle Race
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