Phrases with «pedant»

A pedant is someone who pays excessive attention to minor details, rules, or technicalities, often demonstrating their knowledge or intelligence to others. They can be overly obsessed with correctness or correctness of others, and might come off as being arrogant or annoyingly precise. Full definition

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Sentences with «pedant»

But there's plenty of room on this disc, so I can't understand why Warner doesn't make the purists and tedious pedants in the audience happy by giving us a lossless mono version we can embrace. (filmfreakcentral.net)
In a perfect world, pedants like MARodger would eventually resist the temptation to continually mix nitpicks with ad hominems and actually make an effort to understand the point being made. (realclimate.org)
Pedants from crappy schools who haven't studied actual hard science with the best in the field (DNA / organic / organic / nano - tech, materials chemistry in my case) don't know how to go back and check the input data to see if the conclusions taken from them even pass the laugh test, which they do not. (scholarsandrogues.com)
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