Translation of vitter in Dutch–English dictionary
(Translation of vitter from the PASSWORD Dutch–English Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples in english of pedant
pedant
A pedant might say that this is a predicament rather than a dilemma; but no matter, the reader will already have gathered that this is an ambitious book.
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Boys go to school for years and come out as dull at ditchwater because they have had pedants over them all the time.
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He is accused of being a constitutional pedant.
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He has taken the line of a dogmatic pedant.
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This reference also shows that the traditional preference for the elliptical like is every bit as worthy as the pedants' choice of the elliptical ax.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The way of the pedant has always been hard but nowadays, at several thousands of pounds per infinitive, it has become exhaustively expensive.
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Whatever number is chosen, the pedant may find fault he can find historical error whatever choice is made.
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I do not say this in the spirit of a pedant.
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