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be pedantic
adjective
Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
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5.52pm GMT Down on Downing "I don't wish to be pedantic," begins Jason Gregory Isaacs in the manner of all pedants.
Don't be pedantic.
She could be pedantic, too.
Let's be pedantic about "major economy".
It can't be pedantic or instruct or preach.
He knows so much that he need not be pedantic".
Sure, Wes Anderson might be pedantic, but we aren't.
Well, first of all, one can be pedantic.
[e]If anyone wants to be pedantic they could point out that I asked two questions.
And for me to say it and then explain it would be pedantic.
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