pedantic
adjective
ostentatious in one's learning.
unpedantic
-
a word derived from
pedantic.
Example Sentences
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Ten years in the writing, laced with a wide but unpedantic range of quotation and allusion, Nature and Culture sets the paintings in full light against a panoramic ground of ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The oddly unpedantic judgment was prompted by a concert last week in Rome's isth century Palazzo Pio.
From Time Magazine Archive
We shall endeavor to make this description as clear and unpedantic as possible.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
And with this tolerant and unpedantic frame of mind I am in hearty accord.
From Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by Presland, John
The polish of his language and he unpedantic manner in which he revealed his culture greatly impressed her; and after we had left the Musée she showed it by questioning me about him.
From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by Johnson, James Weldon
