How to use "pedantic" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pedantic" in popular movie and book plots

  • The story is told from two perspectives: those of George, a pedantic 16-year-old girl living in contemporary Cambridge, and Francesco del Cossa, an Italian renaissance artist responsible for painting a series of frescoes in the 'Hall of the Months' at the Palazzo Schifanoia (translated as the 'Palace of Not Being Bored' in the novel) in Ferrara, Italy.  - How to Be Both
  • Convinced the list contains a secret code, the pedantic Aramis helps decipher the list, using advanced linguistic and Biblical knowledge.  - Revenge of the Musketeers
  • He is organized, precise and pedantic to a “T”, with high regard for proper grammar—in a word, he is "anal"; he is intellectual and even ingenuous, to a certain degree, until he goes about uncovering corruption that exists in different procedures in which he is directly involved: for example, the presidential elections or usurpation of authority.  - Red April
  • It is a heart-warming account of the Easter story as seen through the eyes of a lovable pig (Horace), a faint-hearted horse (Monty), a pedantic rat (Slink), a rambling rooster (Drake), a motherly cow (Esmay) and a downtrodden donkey (Jack).  - The Lion of Judah
  • By chance, they are joined by Inez's friend Paul, who is described as both pedantic and a pseudo-intellectual, and who speaks with great authority but questionable accuracy on the history and artworks of Paris.  - Midnight in Paris
  • As the collector explains the multitude of threads connecting each painting, the disembodied narrator questions the collector’s pedantic conclusions.  - The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
  • Set in Saint Petersburg in 1800, the film satirizes the pedantic absurdities of the rule of Emperor Paul His obsession with rigid drill, instant obedience and martinet discipline extends not only to his soldiers but also to his courtiers and even the servants who scrub the palace corridors.  - Lieutenant Kijé (film)
  • Furio, a pedantic and chatterbox clerk living in Turin, is with his family on his way to Rome, so are half witted Mimmo with his diabetic grandmother.  - Bianco, rosso e Verdone
  • Ian Butterworth, a brilliant (if pedantic and intolerably smug) English student, apparently commits suicide by hanging himself after accusing another student of plagiarism.  - High Table, Lower Orders
  • Superficially, the play is a farce about "gulled knights and waggish servants," though it has also been perceived to possess deeper levels of meaning; critics have judged it a "rarefied, pedantic neo-platonic allegory" as well as "a modern dress version of the Troilus story, based primarily on Chaucer's account and on Estienne Tabourot's Les apothegmes du sieur Gaulard".  - Sir Giles Goosecap
  • Sir Pitt has two sons, the pompous and pedantic elder son (Douglas Hodge), who also bears the name Pitt Crawley, and the dashing younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley (James Purefoy).  - Vanity Fair (2004 film)
  • The novel opens with a statement of veracity, where the author claims to be writing no fiction and no pedantic history.  - Oroonoko
  • Their stagnant society is divided into three strata: aggressive gorilla soldiers, pedantic and politically conservative orangutan administrators, and liberal chimpanzee intellectuals.  - Planet of the Apes (novel)

Example sentences for "pedantic" in interesting articles

  • In other words: innovators, not implementers. Thanks for the article, I hope the above paragraph does not read as pedantic or unappreciative. Kishore Subramanian Says: February 15, 2012 at 9:20 pm | Reply Agree with the term “Coder”.  - A myth called the Indian programmer
  • Blaming others and twisting arguments to one’s own benefit seem to be growing art forms — on all sides — and it isn’t progress, although the pedantic summaries are impressive.  - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
  • We require them to be adept at simplifying fractions involving radicals, drawing accurate sketches of ellipses and hyperbolae from their equations, and writing out the steps of a geometric proof in such pedantic detail as would make a grown mathematician cry. I fear my rant may disguise my true intentions: the problem is not the content.  - You never did math in high school
  • We require them to be adept at simplifying fractions involving radicals, drawing accurate sketches of ellipses and hyperbolae from their equations, and writing out the steps of a geometric proof in such pedantic detail as would make a grown mathematician cry. I fear my rant may disguise my true intentions: the problem is not the content.  - You never did math in high school
  • Let me know what speech I am supposed to derive from the Bed, Bath and Beyond website. I'm not quite sure if you're being pedantic when you try to equate infringement with expression.  - The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet
  • But while we’re on the subject of pedantic footnotes … A shape-changing sea-god: And finally, jumping ahead 600 pages, an endless frontier/a cemetery of dead ideas/a reminder of your aunt’s 15-minutes of fame: After that journey of discover, Untangling the Web ends perhaps the only way it could: with a back cover design that looks cribbed from a ’90s Christian rock album.  - The NSA’s guide to the internet
  • Against both the panpsychicism of hippie ecology, the bleary-eyed invocations of some dismally all-encompassing Mother Earth, and the pedantic materialism of most sciences as they’re actually practiced, ‘No Forests on Flat Earth’ proposes a kind of hylothanatism, a pessimism for our own weary age: this world was once alive, everything was once beautifully connected, but not any more.  - What it means to believe that “real” trees no longer exist (2016)
  • To Gell-Mann's colleagues, a book of light-hearted anecdotes told by their intense and pedantic friend seemed a dubious prospect.  - The Jaguar and the Fox: Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman (2000)
  • He is as ruthless on defense, however, as he is on offense, taking on leftists and conservatives, English nationalists and feminists, pedantic critics and postmodernists alike, for their various distortions of his subject's life and work.The greatest assaults on Orwell's reputation have come from the left, where, Hitchens writes, his "very name ...  - ‘The Power of Facing’

Meaning of "pedantic" in English

  • marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Meaning of "pedantic" in Hindi

  • पंडिताऊ ( Panditau, panditaaoo)

Synonyms of "pedantic"

  • donnish
  • academic

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