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Another word for pedantic

Adjective

  1. Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters

    2. See also:

    teach

    flexible

    attitude

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Sentence Examples

  • It seemed as though the Renaissance ran a risk of being throttled in its cradle by superfluity of foreign and pedantic nutriment.

  • He was disgusted at the pedantic teaching of his own day, and he insisted that the teaching of words and things must go together.

  • He was disgusted at the pedantic teaching of his own day, and he insisted that the teaching of words and things must go together.

  • Instinctively a humanist, he had little patience with the narrow curriculum of Harvard in his day and the rather pedantic spirit with which classical studies were there pursued.

  • This narrow and pedantic theory had at least the merit of insisting on propriety of expression.

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