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as in scholarly
marked by or given to showing knowledge in a showy way
The writing was overly complex and pedantic, which made it nearly impossible to understand for anyone but a specialist. The speech was thoroughly researched and well structured, but too pedantic to appeal to a general audience.
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as in boring
causing weariness or lack of interest
I found the author's writing informative but dreadfully pedantic.
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Recent Examples of pedantic
The primary impact was to tournament players and to the pedantic rule grammar police.
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Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Plus, in addition to bringing back master-of-disguise penguin villain Feathers McGraw, the movie features a convincing while never pedantic message about our dependence on technology and the pleasures of doing things by hand.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
So ultimately, the remedy for this problem goes beyond pedantic lessons in medical risk data.
—Amanda Montañez, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
And Mitchell is perfectly cast in a role seemingly built to suit his usual fussy, pedantic schtick.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
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Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Plus, in addition to bringing back master-of-disguise penguin villain Feathers McGraw, the movie features a convincing while never pedantic message about our dependence on technology and the pleasures of doing things by hand.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
So ultimately, the remedy for this problem goes beyond pedantic lessons in medical risk data.
—Amanda Montañez, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
And Mitchell is perfectly cast in a role seemingly built to suit his usual fussy, pedantic schtick.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedantic
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Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research.—
Cyril Labbé,
The Conversation,
31 Jan. 2025
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Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
Fox News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Camilla told Newsweek that her husband, Linford, 32, works as a tunnel boring machine operator in London.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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Take it from this guy, who bought the beautiful Starfield limited-edition Xbox controller, headset, and console wrap for over $200, only to play the game and dump it after 20 boring hours.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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Cultivating a data-literate workforce is key to sustaining a future-proof data strategy.—
Gowtham Chilakapati,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately, many on the internet have identified this week as a particularly tiring one for Black K-pop fans.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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Of course, going from shows to pickleball classes to after-hours jam sessions at B.B. King’s Blues Club can be tiring.—
DeMarco Williams,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Untangling a relationship with SpaceX Some of the most intelligent questions came from US Sen. Andy Kim, D-New Jersey.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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That was when Livingstone started inventing tasks at home, and was delighted to see the intelligent dog learning new commands fast.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The additional compounds in matcha dull this effect.—
Helen Carefoot,
Verywell Health,
11 Apr. 2025
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Connelly put skilled and cerebral players around Jokić and Jamal Murray, with the occasional defensive stopper.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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In the cerebral sign of Gemini — curiosity, communication and adaptability — Jupiter opens a world of possibilities.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps that sounds didactic; rest assured that her novels foreground richly specific narratives about individual characters.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2025
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There are several plot holes, extra scenes clearly included just to boost Sheridan's ego, and the dialogue has become overly preachy and didactic—almost as annoying as Aaron Sorkin's mini-sermons in later seasons of The West Wing, which is saying something.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Pedantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedantic. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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