He is a perfect type of pedant.
I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression.
Indeed he went farther, and characterised the baron as the most intolerable formal pedant he had ever had the misfortune to meet with.
He's an old pedant.
He's a bit of a pedant.
More than that, he described the Baron as the most intolerable pedant he had ever had in his life.
Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
This architect had been a pedant.
In this iteration of the tale, Peter Parker is a pedant with sweaty palms and weak posture.
a captious pedant;
He is a real pedant. He just echoes what the book says.
A pedant misinterprets the meaning
But emotion this, too some pedant, biased poet dismemberment broken and dripping wet, Must make" sexual intercourse" of the pure" emotion" to explain .
Though proficient in literature and etiquette, he was stubbornly adherent to outworn rules. Being impractical and dull, he looked just like an old pedant.
a pompous pedant
A captious pedant; an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor.
The habit of mind or manner characteristic of a pedant.
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