Meaning

Pedantic details..

Definitions by Sense

1. Pedantic details.
2. Pedantry; the quality of being pedantic.

Example Sentences

I deal with this type of thing every day and while I do not go into pedantics we must have scientific evidence gathered in each area to put the problem into perspective.

In Addis Zemen, in particular, the old hortatory pedantics of the need for progress, economic development and bureaucratic efficiency continued even after the change of regime. The only aspect of the pedantics that changed was the type of precedents mentioned in terms of development problems and their solutions.

He highlights the stylistic conceits and ambiguity that often turn quite ordinary statements into ponderous pedantics.

What we need to do here is not so much address the politics and the pedantics but make sure that—not just in this industry but also in other industries—the protocols put in place to protect our industries are in fact effective.

“This isn’t the time to argue pedantics, Ace, come. Time and tide melt the snowman and all that.”

It would be far better if the expression of the view of the Senate were arrived at without the necessity for pedantics—although I am not suggesting that pedantics are involved in this case—or the tagging on of things.

It has to be imaginative, but at the same time we have to do a certain amount of pedantics. What I might call pedantic research to answer the questions that our first witness has to have each year.

The lack of pretension, mentioned above, is present in the music, also. Pomposity and pedantics are absent from this score.

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