pedantic

These details can sound pedantic, but they can make a huge difference in day-to-day use.

The pedantic scholars among us might wonder if the book does its job.

The pedantic type might note that Hippolytus makes no prophetic mention of the cinema or the Internet.

The drinks here, like the Blackwatch (with Johnny Walker Black, creme de cassis, and Becherovka), are far from pedantic.

The problem was that Sorkin did too much (pedantic, predictable) telling and not enough showing.

Her perfection can sometimes verge on pedantic, like with her conversion to veganism.

Pedantic, unimaginative and presumptuous, Theobald was the logical choice for a Dunce King in 1728.

A pedantic fellow called for a bottle of hock at a tavern, which the waiter, not hearing distinctly, asked him to repeat.

He is no longer pedantic; he no longer makes vulgar allusions, but only fears that they might be made.

The ages in which they flourished attached no value to pedantic displays of learning paraded in foot-notes.

There was Sir James Smith, the botanist, made much of and really not pedantic and vulgar like the rest, but weak and irritable.