pedantry
IPA: pˈɛdʌntri
noun
- An excessive attention to detail or rules.
- An instance of such behaviour.
- An overly ambitious display of learning.
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Examples of "pedantry" in Sentences
- The rest is just monarchist pedantry.
- The attempted pedantry wasn't necessary.
- Someone needs to put an end to the pedantry.
- The arguments and pedantry are identical to Evrik.
- I agree that some of my pedantry reduced the humor.
- It is not pedantry to follow the standards of scholarship.
- The great strength of English is flexibility, not pedantry.
- The rest is irrelevant pedantry and essentially linkspamming.
- Coward makes fun of egocentric actors and the pedantry of committees.
- The argument that this is somehow erroneous is pedantry, plain and simple.
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