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adjective

pedantic

CEFR B2

of or like a pedant; excessively concerned with minor details

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pedantic, each labelled with its topic.

  • His critique was so pedantic that he spent ten minutes on the copyright font and none on the picture.

    Photography

  • Reviewers called the new style guide pedantic because it rejected pull requests over the placement of a single comma.

    Technology

  • The judge grew pedantic about julienne widths while the sauce he ignored separated quietly on the plate.

    Cooking

  • The footnotes are pedantic, correcting the poet's dates and spellings while ignoring what the poem actually says.

    Literature

  • The seminar grew pedantic, spending an hour on whether a term should be translated as being or as existence.

    Philosophy

  • The pedantic teacher stopped the student at every wrong fingering and never let her play a full phrase.

    Music

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