Pedantry Synonyms

pĕdn-trē
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. sophistry
  2. meticulousness
  3. precision
  4. display of knowledge
  5. bookishness
  6. exactness
  7. pretension
  8. dogmatism
  9. pedagogery
  10. finicalness

Words Related to Pedantry

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Pedantry Sentence Examples

  • His poems are elegant and free from the conceits and pedantry of the earlier writers.

  • Learning, indeed, was often ridiculed as pedantry in a gentleman of good family.

  • He poses too much as a fine gentleman, and is so anxious not to be taken for a pedant of the vulgar scholastic kind that he falls into the hardly more attractive pedantry of the aesthete and virtuoso.

  • Marot and his school reacted against this pedantry.

  • He was an admirer of Marx's learning and analytical power, but he would never submit to the tyrannical pedantry of Marx's school and stood up for an elemental awaking of revolutionary instincts.

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