pedant
a person who is overly concerned with minor details or rules
Word origin: From Italian pedante, a schoolmaster.
Pedant in a sentence
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Only a pedant would object to a comma in such an informal note.
The reviewer came across as a pedant, fixated on a misplaced comma while ignoring the argument.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “pedant” well
Pedant is a derogatory label for someone who flaunts trivial learning or fusses over rules at the expense of substance.
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