pedantry

[ UK /pˈɛdəntɹˌi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛdəntɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
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How To Use pedantry In A Sentence

  • One of the professed objects of the Brook Farm association was, to escape from the evils of the great world, -- from the trickery of trade, the pedantry of colleges, the flunkyism of office, and the arrogant pretensions of wealth. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
  • Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
  • It has as its virtue the quality of being opposed to red tape, professionalism, departmentalism pedantry, officiousness, intolerance, lethargy, and the tyranny of custom; it has its dangers in that, resting as it does in the last resort on the personal and the concrete, it tends in ill-balanced minds to neglect the value of ancient and dear illusions, and to degenerate into chaos and caprice. Personality in Literature
  • As a director, his perfectionism / pedantry would have tested the patience of any producer.
  • Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
  • Against the first objection, I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry.
  • Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, or in the affectation of words of remote signification: these are the only points of view in which I have been taught to consider the meaning of the term pedantry, which is very indefinite, and always a relative one. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
  • There is much pedantry, but every so often there is stark beauty.
  • Pedant - first rule of pedantry is to make sure that your post is perfect and to understand that the spellchecker is, like us all, fallible. Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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