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Значения термина pedantic на английском

Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.

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Examples for "academic"
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That's the new message out from public health academic, Professor Grant Schofield.
Radio NZ
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Methods: Case reports of two men admitted to an academic medical center.
Pubmed
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However, he said teachers required other qualities in addition to academic ability.
Radio NZ
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It's decisively effected the stability and cohesion of Europe, the academic said.
Reuters
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After completing his academic course work, Wes started on his professional training.
The other wes moore: one name, two fates
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Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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He was stiff and donnish, and had scarcely condescended to speak to any one.
The Three Lieutenants
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In 1956 he was lured out of his donnish bachelor state by Joy Davidman, an American poet.
The Guardian
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He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all.
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
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Funnier than anything else he's written, if sometimes in a rather donnish way, it eventually becomes unexpectedly moving.
The Guardian
Использование термина pedantic на английском
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It's not clear to me that in reality he was so pedantic.
Wired
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The note was sharp and stinging, the discourse elaborate and somewhat pedantic.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76
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He does not in short sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Bad as they are, there's a freedom alien to Hitler's pedantic efforts.
The Guardian
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If the experts attempt any pedantic interference, we will shoot the experts.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 /...
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The pedantic treatment of this noble art was highly repugnant to me.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
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Objection has been taken to the somewhat pedantic precision of these lines.
Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson
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This is rather cheaply pedantic, & is not in very good taste.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
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To be pedantic, we're in the campaign, not the front line itself.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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Brooklyn deserves the title, but would leave to Boston her pedantic ways.
New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 / ...
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The law is a snob as well as a pedantic, pompous ass.
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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She is an intelligent child and although only thirteen, is very pedantic.
The new yorker
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Leo, that sounds very pedantic, and there is nothing I dislike more.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
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You've been the dearest pupil, and forgiven me all my pedantic ways.
Helena
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She showed an orderly, almost pedantic, character, mingled with generosity of heart.
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
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But he had proved himself incompetent, unadaptable, a stick, a pedantic incapable.
The Half-Hearted
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