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What does pedantic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  2. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
  3. Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
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I'm not saying that ethics committees that question research proposals are always being pedantic.
For years, pedantic scholars have crowed about the debt rock owes the blues.
The way I practice witchcraft has changed a lot, I'm a lot less pedantic now, I'm a lot more intuitive.
But the wedding with its pedantic, rural nuptial dance winding along the landscape in middle distance with no visible musicians looks very twee.
If you're being pedantic, I suppose this makes it more of an open sandwich, but in my book the mozzarella and pepperoni qualify it as pizza.
It's heavy stuff, but the idea-rich tale unfolds its philosophy in a way that manages to neatly skirt pedantic style and didactic tone.

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