Pedantic

Pedantic Farker displays his pedantic cred, still no fun at parties.

Instead of coming prepared with stock, pedantic responses prepared by white-shoed lawyers, the presidents should have been more natural in their responses.

This week has not really been a good time for energy bills in the UK to be the most expensive on the planet – but let’s not force the Government to focus on pedantic.

What is at stake is not merely the pedantic truth about yesterday, but the self-perception and self-confidence of the British today, and the way they conduct themselves in the world tomorrow.

Your practical, perceptive, super smart nature leads you into the territory of believing you know best (it’s true, you usually do) and being (dare I say) a little pedantic.

Baker, who serves as a minister of state at the Northern Ireland Office, said on Monday: “I don’t like to be pedantic but a government policy would have been developed by ministers on the advice of officials and collectively agreed.

Or perhaps a Sith mind trick, if one wants to be pedantic.

Family members, friends and colleagues may retreat into themselves, become easily distracted or maybe get too analytical, critical or pedantic in a subconscious attempt to control the conversation when all else is uncontrollable.

I'm not sure why I'm so pedantic this morning.

Muschamp was 88 years old when he died at an aged-care home in Torquay on April 8. The pedantic side of him, which was considerable, would probably insist we add the extra 18 days.

As to whether it does, the most pedantic devotees are sure to find grounds for complaint.

Folks, we are LITERALLY watching the wheels fall off a once finely tuned machine, and it’s the greed and lethargy of the pedantic owners that are fiddling while the organization sinks into this abyss.

I promise, this is not me being needlessly pedantic about words; I think this is actually a necessary distinction to draw.

Terje Anderson, the chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party, also didn’t mention his home state senator as a standout but heaped praise on Warren for recently breaking through an early perception that she’s too wooden and pedantic to win the nomination.

The other problem is that you’re adding yet another fun-killing, time-dragging, pedantic replay to a football game which already has too many of them.

The pedantic nature of the ending feels especially detracting on account of the film’s 132-minute runtime and its repetitive thoroughness.

You know what always gets lost in this petty, pedantic argument about whether to say “Autistic Child” or “Child with Autism”?

Book readers are notoriously pedantic when it comes to the adapting of beloved literary franchises.

I knew someone was going to be pedantic about that word choice.

Not to be pedantic, but x10 nothing is still nothing.