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Crossword-Solution: PEDANT 6 letters, 135 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Pedant n. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Pedant n. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain
display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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PEDANT anagram PANTED, PENTAD

We have 135 clues for the answer “PEDANT”

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Academic bore 1 answer
Academic formalist 1 answer
Academic nitpicker 1 answer
Bluestocking's cousin. 1 answer
Book-smart person 1 answer
Bookish bore 1 answer
Certain stickler 1 answer
Chronic nitpicker 1 answer
Dogmatic teacher 1 answer
Educated show-off 1 answer
Finical scholar. 1 answer
Formalist in teaching 1 answer
Grammar nitpicker, e.g. 1 answer
Grammar stickler, e.g. 1 answer
Hairsplitting scholastic 1 answer
He knows he knows 1 answer
INTERIOR scholar 1 answer
Intellectual nitpicker 1 answer
Intellectual show-off 1 answer
Intellectual snob. 1 answer
Intellectual stickler 1 answer
Know-it-all type 1 answer
Know-it-all, maybe 1 answer
Learned show-off. 1 answer
Member of the grammar police, e.g. 1 answer
Narrow-minded teacher 1 answer
Nit-picking type 1 answer
Nitpicking one 1 answer
Nitpicky know-it-all 1 answer
One fussy about minor details 1 answer
One who goes strictly by the book 1 answer
One who shows off his education 1 answer
Overbearing scholar 1 answer
Overdone egghead 1 answer
Overly erudite one. 1 answer
Overly meticulous scholar 1 answer
PRETENTIOUS scholar 1 answer
Pedagogue, but in an annoying way 1 answer
Person prone to nitpicking 1 answer
Petty academic 1 answer
Petty point maker 1 answer
Petty scholar 1 answer
Picky type 1 answer
Pompous parader of knowledge 1 answer
Precise pedagogue. 1 answer
Professional showoff 1 answer
Professorial showoff 1 answer
Scholar who shows of his knowledge 1 answer
Scholarly showoff. 1 answer
Scholastic exhibitionist 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PEDANT (5)

His tones were no longer those of the erudite pedant theorizing upon the abstract and the unknowable; but those of the man of action—determined, but tinged also by a note of indescribable hopelessness and grief which wrung an answering pang from Clayton’s heart.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The wise one of earth, the Chaldean, Serves folly in wisdom's disguise; And the sensual Epicurean, Though grosser, is hardly less wise; 'Twixt the former, half pedant, half pagan, And the latter, half sow and half sloth, We halt, choose Astarte or Dagon, Or sacrifice freely to both.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
And he, though a bit of a prig and a pedant, was by no means dull, and had honesty enough to confess when he was in the wrong.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
Butler, a bit of a pedant, is pleased to justify his conduct by reason and philosophy--he finds in the acts of unscrupulous monarchs an analogy to his own attitude towards life.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996
Apart, however, from the desire to avoid pedant or puerile humour, re-examination of my material showed me how near I had been to crashing into a pitfall of another sort.
She Stands Accused Victor MacClure 1996

Quotes with PEDANT (3)

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.
Fredrik Backman My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress (sic) myself" - I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological (sic) relation; there is always the respect due to your geology (sic)," I would shrug my shoulders and s…
Marcel Proust Swann's Way
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 82 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).