Ejemplos de uso de PEDANT
1. Yet with his poker face and slow, even diction, Ahsan comes across as a pedant, not a revolutionary.
2. It is like a linguistic pedant who will only acknowledge you if you speak the Queen‘s English.
3. The biggest, most foreboding presence in the book is his late father, a policeman, who was a bully and a pedant.
4. In contrast to the charismatic bin Laden, who speaks in poetic Arabic and projects the image of a statesman, Zawahiri is an uncompromising pedant who tailors his messages to other radicals.
5. Smith had opened his case in a lengthy speech, remarked, ‘I have read your case, Mr Smith, and am no wiser now than I was when I started.’ ‘Possibly not, My Lord, but far better informed.’ In this case the old pedant conveyed neither light nor information.