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pedantically
Variant of pedant
noun
- a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
- a narrow-minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules
- Obsolete a schoolmaster
Related Forms:
- pedantic adjective
- pedantically adverb
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