pedantic
adjective
ostentatious in one's learning.
pedantical
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a variation of
pedantic.
Example Sentences
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On the fourth floor of a renovated factory off Union Square in lower Manhattan, early on a sweltering August day, romantical cats and pedantical cats, allegorical cats and metaphorical cats are assembling.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Roman play seems written to confute those enemies of Ben in his own days and ours, who have said that he made a pedantical use of his learning.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
I endeavoured to make a suitable return to this prodigious increase of courtesy by a pedantical, but in my then opinion classical, quotation: Dii tibi,—&c.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
