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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "pedant" in a sentence

    pedant example sentences

    pedant


    1. Alistair seemed unsure of what to do with the pedant he had


    2. exposed pedant, with affectation, for showing author’s


    3. It had a big gold pedant with the initials P


    4. After this pedant had talked for almost three hours, and when he had finished his discourse, Jesus, in terms of modern thought, said:


    5. He was a pedant, to the most extreme point, the greatest pedant I had met on earth, and with that had a vanity only befitting Alexander of Macedon


    6. But the idea of this dried-up pedant, this elaborator of small explanations about as important as the surplus stock of false antiquities kept in a vendor's back


    7. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession


    8. " Ten years later, with the love of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and insufferable to the sight! You are right!"—At the moment in life and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!"


    9. This was the soldier Techérévin, one of the company of discipline; a morose, cold-reasoning pedant, an idiot full of amour propre; while the narrator was Chichkof, about thirty years old; this was a civilian convict, whom up to that time I had not at all observed; and during the whole time I was at the prison I never could get up the smallest interest in him, for he was a conceited, heady fellow


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    Synonyms for "pedant"

    bookworm pedant scholastic dogmatist precisianist quibbler faultfinder scholar pedagogue formalist doctrinaire methodologist bluestocking

    "pedant" definitions

    a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit