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Adverb for excessively concerned with minor details or rules
“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.”
Adverb for academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way
“Smith presents a long-winded, pedantic lecture on the evils of lying.”
Adverb for nitpicky or cerebral to the point of being pompous
“There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art.”
Adverb for inclined to express negative or disapproving comments
Adverb for intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
Adverb for bombastic or grandiloquent in expression
Adverb for like a prig
Adverb for boring or severely lacking in interest
Adverb for referring to something in a strict sense
Adverb for pretentious and designed to impress
Adverb for concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters
Adverb for based on or calculated through theory or analysis
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