Attitude; human behaviour, displaying obsession with detail or process, often negatively perceived.
1 But there is something peculiarly laughable in the pedantry of such criticism.
2 There was no pretension or pedantry in a word that was said.
3 To the pedantry of the Hindu he attributes its main characteristics, viz.
4 But that was carrying correctness of procedure to the verge of pedantry .
5 The subject of quotation being introduced, Mr. Wilkes censured it as pedantry .
6 Foedric spoke with ease, and yet with entire absence of youthful pedantry .
7 Never was there such beautiful moralizing, equally free from pedantry or petulance.
8 I hoped you had forgotten that piece of pedantry on my part.'
9 Soukanhoff was right in warning the obsessive to beware of pedantry .
10 Not pedantry , but with the deep-lying fundamental truth that humanity ought to know.
11 Normally his conversation, both in subject-matter and in verbal form, bore towards pedantry .
12 Their writings are encumbered with the bad taste and pedantry of the time.
13 The Master said, Matter outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing matter begets pedantry .
14 There was too much pedantry in both of them and too little artistry.
15 And Mr. Leslie spares us the boredom of odious and sterile French pedantry .
16 A little, appreciative grin was all the attention the insinuation of pedantry received.
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