How To Use Pedantically In A Sentence
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She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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these interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'
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There are a very few words - brock, for badger being one, combe, meaning a deep valley, and which appears in some English village names and in contemporary Welsh, another, torr, a mountain peak - which seem to have survived, at least among those who speak preciously or somewhat pedantically today.
Excerpt: The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
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After all, if we all stayed pedantically committed to our initial interests and behavioural patterns life would seem an awful lot longer and drearier than it presently does.
Dear Mariella: I do yoga, which makes my boyfriend reckon that I've joined a cult. Can we get past this?
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Pedantically speaking, there is no similar conversion for objects.
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Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath.
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The latter had only one side, and therefore — plurally and pedantically speaking — NO SIDES.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
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No childhood is complete until it has watched their sloomy and impassive faces munching against the glass, and seen the gradual egress (as the encyclopædia pedantically puts it) of their tender limbs, the growing froggishness of their demeanour.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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One of the few rational things I have met with, Eleanor, in the works of your very objectionable pet Mr. Carlyle -- though indeed his style is too intolerable to have allowed me to read much -- is the remark that 'speech is silver' -- 'silvern' he calls it, pedantically -- 'while silence is golden.'
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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There are a very few words - brock, for badger being one, combe, meaning a deep valley, and which appears in some English village names and in contemporary Welsh, another, torr, a mountain peak - which seem to have survived, at least among those who speak preciously or somewhat pedantically today.
Excerpt: The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
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It is surely impossible for any impartial critic to contend that the unlucky novelist's devotion to the class of subjects referred to, and his manner of handling them, did not amount to what has been pedantically, but accurately, termed an "obsession of the _lupanar_.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both.
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This year, it seems likely that a number of my fellow countrymen will be spending a good deal of time pedantically pursuing punctuation rules and grumbling at grammatical solecisms.
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Usoltsev portrays him as an ambivalent ironist—modern in outlook, aware of the corrosion within the Soviet system, a little pedantically legalistic, even, at times, democratic in outlook, but careful to hide any incorrect attitudes in public and skilled at ingratiating himself with his superiors.
The Return
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But at the same time, he thought that women should not follow blindly and pedantically in honor killings. He also had a unique insight in the area of education.
