PEDANTIC in a Sentence

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1. But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.
2. This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
3. Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar.

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pedantic
 a.  marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, especially formal rules and trivial points; bookish
Classic Sentence:
1  He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
2  Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
3  Heron made a poor attempt to imitate for his friend Wallis the rector's pedantic bass and then, laughing at his failure, asked Stephen to do it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
5  Perhaps it need not be done so pedantically, thought Nicholas, or even done at all, but this untiring, continual spiritual effort of which the sole aim was the children's moral welfare delighted him.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XV
6  This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
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.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
8  I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
9  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.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes, Judge Walker was not at all the pedantic legal scholar.
2  Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar.