Crossword-Solution: PEDANTS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PEDANTS | anagram | PENTADS |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PEDANTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hairsplitters | 1 answer |
| Uptight nit-pickers | 1 answer |
| Those who display learning. | 1 answer |
| They split hairs | 1 answer |
| Stiff teachers | 1 answer |
| Ostentatious scholars | 1 answer |
| Nitpicking types | 1 answer |
| Intellectual snobs. | 1 answer |
| Intellectual show-offs | 1 answer |
| Hairsplitting types | 1 answer |
| Grammar sticklers, say | 1 answer |
| Good fact-checking types | 1 answer |
| Eggheaded show-offs | 1 answer |
| Dull pedagogs. | 1 answer |
| Doctrinaires' kin | 1 answer |
| Sticklers | 2 answers |
| Nitpickers | 2 answers |
| Bookish types | 2 answers |
| Bookish folks | 2 answers |
| Prigs | 4 answers |
| quibblers | 4 answers |
| Know-it-alls. | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PEDANTS (5)
They have, to be sure, their proportion of ne'er-do-weels, their pedants and lettered fools, but they have a surprisingly small proportion of them; they have not that culture of manner which we instinctively associate with university men, forgetting that in reality it is the heritage from cultured homes, and that no people a generation removed from slavery can escape a certain unpleasant rawness and gaucherie, despite the best of training.
Lost labour! vain bookworms have sat in The halls of dull pedants who teach Strange tongues, the dead lore of the Latin, The scroll that is god-like and Greek: Have wasted life's springtide in learning Things long ago learnt all in vain; They are slow, very slow, in discerning That book lore and wisdom are twain.
Tolstoi denies that an idea as subtle as a definition of Art can be classified by pedants, and proceeds to formulate the following delightful axiom: “A principle upon which no two people can agree does not exist.” A truth is proved by its evidence to all.
They have, to be sure, their proportion of ne’er-do-wells, their pedants and lettered fools, but they have a surprisingly small proportion of them; they have not that culture of manner which we instinctively associate with university men, forgetting that in reality it is the heritage from cultured homes, and that no people a generation removed from slavery can escape a certain unpleasant rawness and gaucherie, despite the best of training.
But whence did the pedants get the Popish nonsense with which they have corrupted youth? Why, from the same quarter from which they got the Jacobite nonsense with which they have inoculated those lads who were not inoculated with it before--Scott's novels.
Quotes with PEDANTS (3)
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we…
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1946–2021).