(1) Sorry to be pedantic but it really irked me for some reason.

(2) Being a pedantic word-lover, and yes, a feminist, this drives me berserk.

(3) Some companies don't like dealing with this inspector because they say he's draconian and pedantic .

(4) Perhaps this is the wrong forum on which to be so pedantic , but this is something that has bothered me for a while.

(5) The past few articles I have written for this site have been pedantic responses to articles written by others.

(6) I had the same middle parted haircut for eight years, and I was quite pedantic about this being perfect.

(7) Cricket has a reputation for its confusing, pedantic rules.

(8) I have language skills, I'm pedantic to stupendous heights, computer literate and I can fire and strip a pistol.

(9) You can be too pedantic about grammar and pronunciation and you can probably tell from this that spelling is a problem for me, especially when typing.

(10) There's simply no way around the system: it's pedantic , laboured and mind-numbingly frustrating.

(11) Long-winded sentences and pedantic phraseology have yielded place to brief reports.

(12) In order not to sound too didactic or pedantic , the lecturer added anecdotes and personal comments.

(13) My dictionary defines a pedagogue as a pedantic or dogmatic teacher and there is a lot of that about Waters.

(14) At this point, the auteur's films felt fairly strained and pedantic .

(15) Well you could say it's a deal of nitpicking by pedantic scientists over detail.

(16) For years, pedantic scholars have crowed about the debt rock owes the blues.

(17) They would become even more bureaucratic and even more pedantic .

(18) It is not merely a pedantic question - although there is much to be said for scientists providing an honest portrayal of their figures.

(19) No wonder some find his music insufferably boring and pedantic .

(20) This can seem a lot of work, pedantic and fussy but is truly worth it if you can manage.