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.