pedant

IPA: pˈɛdʌnt

A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
(archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.

Examples of "pedant" in Sentences

In Shakespeare's day, a pedant was a male schoolteacher.
'pedant' -- very frequently a 'pedant,' and now, it seems I am an
I might likewise mention the law pedant, that is perpetually putting eases, repeating the transactions of Westminster
Athaeneus, to philosophers and travellers, an opiniative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant; for his manners, as Theod.
He appeared to them to be a queer kind of pedant; they did not care for him, and made no overtures to him, and he avoided them.
In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
A prig or a pedant was his favourite butt, and the performance was rendered all the more effective by his elaborate assumption of the _grand seigneur's_ manner.
He did not like a mere smattering of literary chatter; he did not like to be called a pedant; but he knew, if any man did, what literature was and what was knowledge.
But any woman who could use that word pedant, I reasoned, call her ex-husband “duplicitous” and a “narcissist,” and describe an assistant manager we both worked for as a “troglodyte” was a woman I felt I could spend time talking to and perhaps even want to live with, despite the three kids, a first husband, and her extra year in age.