Translation of vitter in Dutch–English dictionary
(Translation of vitter from the PASSWORD Dutch–English Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples in english of pedant
pedant
This great legal change over 50 years has not been due to the lawyers or to the pedants.
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Grammarians may be serious students of language, but they are frequently caricatured as pedants.
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He is no pedant who refuses to alter any views which he first took up when a case was first press sited to him.
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The way of the pedant has always been hard but nowadays, at several thousands of pounds per infinitive, it has become exhaustively expensive.
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He is accused of being a constitutional pedant.
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The first relates to health spending; it is something of a pedant's point.
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This reference also shows that the traditional preference for the elliptical like is every bit as worthy as the pedants' choice of the elliptical ax.
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Does the difference enhance the language, or merely help to keep pedants employed?
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