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He was an observational genius whose main talent was for exposure — exposure of the predictable opponent and exposure of pedantries, and he treated both as pretty much the same thing.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022

There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

At that period this famous hotel had its pedantries, but it was severely intellectual.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by Lord, John

We boys after a while swapped places with Mammy, and made her the recipient of our small pedantries.

From Southern Lights and Shadows by Howells, William Dean

But the pedantries and affectations of this wonderful society seem to have made no immediate impression upon La Rochefoucauld, whose early years were those of the young nobleman devoid of all apparent intellectual curiosity.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund