Use of pedantry in Sentences. 19 Examples

The examples include pedantry at the start of sentence, pedantry at the end of sentence and pedantry in the middle of sentence

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pedantry at the start of sentence


  1. Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.
  2. Pedantry and intellectual theorising were not Basil's stock-in-trade; all such, he seemed to short circuit.

pedantry at the end of sentence


  1. His attitude savors of pedantry.
  2. The book is a demonstration of scholarship without pedantry.
  3. He had all the illumination of wisdom and none of its pedantry.
  4. He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.
  5. Against the first objection, I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry.

pedantry in the middle of sentence


  1. Do not be deceived by the pedantry of dates.
  2. A pedantry scholar saw ask: " Where is your brother? "
  3. There was a hint of pedantry in his elegant style of speaking.
  4. As a bel esprit he despised pedantry whether in a man or in a bluestocking.
  5. Governmental organizations are too pedantry, with slavish attention to rules.
  6. Maud talked with a mixture of pedantry and horse sense that impressed him as singular and forcible.
  7. Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.
  8. Those people prefer naturalness and easiness. They are rational but not pedantry, generous but not extravagant.
  9. This task has often seemed to combine the pedantry of library theory with the incomprehensibility of computer science.
  10. Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
  11. The reason for my pedantry over the title of this newly created role is that the job has been jovially referred to across the media as a 'Twitter Tsar'.
  12. A leading graphologist's study of the Duchess' handwriting has shown that her pedantry for time keeping, intelligence and efficiency would make her the perfect school teacher.
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