One word

Pedantic

Word of the day on 29 April 2010.

Winning tweet

84
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mazpow
There is nothing wrong with precision, but a pedantic fool confuses fact with insight, and knowledge with wisdom.

Good uses

  • catmar604
    73
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    pedantic bored game : Trivial Pursuit
  • baccatum
    72
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    The pedantic butcher went on and on about how to properly chop up rabbits. Really just splitting hares.
  • TiddK
    71
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    The pedantic bird gets the phylum annelida (lumbricus terrestris)
  • OldJoeStalin
    70
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    The psychiatrist diagnosed Brad with pedantic schizophrenia, because he not only hears voices, he also corrects their grammar.
  • Tralala56
    69
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    Being pedantic is when you've got your two feet solidy stuck in the quagmire of what you think you know.
  • JonPowles
    68
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    Those who confuse pedantic correctness with truth, are those who know what the words mean, but not the music.
  • OddlyStarry
    67
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    If I were as pedantic about the rest of my life as I am about artwiculate, I might actually be a success.
  • agezoko
    61
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    Most of a How-to book is Pedantic. #artwiculate
  • lagadu123
    57
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    Me, pedantic ? Never. Except when it comes to the finer points of chocolate connoisseurdom.
  • ultracutebot
    54
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    the loquacious & rather pedantic sesquipedalian had a tendency to spew fribble & verbal effluvium
  • Wifsie
    54
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    pedantic disguise / behind the smoke of knowledge / waits your true wisdom. #artwiculate
  • harrarp
    53
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    Alone on the beach I'm at my most pedantic. Giving the ocean a piece of my mind. Sand smiles between my toes.
  • marcosarroyos
    52
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    Would it kill you to stop being pedantic and let me say irregardless without correcting me? Regardless, dear.
  • dmriver
    52
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    Pedantic, my dear, I don't give a damn.
  • dsceiorg
    51
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    Pedantic quibbles / Intersection of meaning / and someone's intent
  • Krafti_kit
    51
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    You say didactic, I say pedantic, it's all ennui. #artwiculate
  • HourlyDavidson
    50
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    pedantic : where knowledge is the master, not the slave.
  • smeedha
    50
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    The pedantic musician's role in the orchestra- Blowing his own trumpet
  • beezknez
    49
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    The pedantic moon / paled in disgust at the stars / spread of disorder / #haiku #poetry #pedantic
  • gBaYgUrL
    49
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    My teacher was a doctrinaire,down to the part in his hair .You never questioned his antics, for he was king of the pedantic-s
  • Sally677
    49
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    Nothing wrong with being pedantic. I like a man who knows how to really use his exclamation point!!
  • Anamuk
    49
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    I might be using vote inaccurate in a rather pedantic manner today
  • emmaexpress
    48
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    I'm not pedantic, I just have an elision tic. I grimace involuntarily every time I see a misplaced apostrophe.
  • asim7asim
    47
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    Who tend to enjoy the beauty of full moon scientifically, can be called a pedantic. #artwiculate
  • TheSupercargo
    47
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    @artwiculte! Now you're talking my language. Pedantic is my middle name.
  • MaxRaunchiness
    46
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    Pedantic blonde / Not MD, but PHD / She flirts in Latin #maxku
  • silverne
    46
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    Glair of her short blonde hair galvanizes my existence like a pedantic pendant of charlatan chaman.
  • lithiumzombie
    45
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    "Geez Bill, why do you always have to be so pedantic!" / "Didactic, not pedantic."
  • kado56
    45
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    I don't mean to be pedantic but ...how can Mando and Marcos claim to be bosom buddies when neither of them has a bosom?
  • Ysabeluna
    45
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    are you romantic ~ or pedantic? still i ache ~ for love beyond optic ~ #haiku #poetry
  • tama001
    45
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    pedantic lost in a maze of mind / fuss around up and down / find way out of life. #artwiculate
  • Awdures
    44
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    The fact that I'm mentally correcting your grammar does not mean I'm a pedantic person...
  • minibtweet
    44
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    Immaculate ~ pedantic beauty ~ a chrysalis ~ yet unfolding full of abandon & charm #artwiculate
  • BurningHawk1969
    42
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    It's a fine line between pedantic and obsessive-compulsive, and I tend to walk it. #artwiculate
  • SJHatzi
    41
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    Dearest Artwiculate, omitting the nuance of "narrow knowledge" in the definition of pedantic on the site is so clever! Bravi!
  • celticgladiator
    40
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    smart but not pedantic, tough but still romantic. @gbaygurl is the best friend a guy could ask for.
  • LBY3
    40
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    @artwiculate I certainly hope everyone will use the proper definition of "pedantic" today in their Artwiculate tweets.
  • TinaNguyen
    39
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    Overly prim and proper, the aristocrat's bike pedaling antics were positively pedantic. #artwiculate
  • kings_indian
    39
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    pedantic demagoguery - the devil is in the details.
  • AaronLivingston
    39
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    When u play #artwiculate RT in the correct manner, always thank those that RT you, and RT as often as you can. Yawn, how pedantic.
  • Squawkingalah
    38
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    Pedantic troglodyte: "Grunt properly!"
  • catwaldron
    36
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    I try not to be pedantic, but I hate when people don't speak English good. #artwiculate
  • ale_bundy
    35
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    Falling asleep once on pedantic, shame on super silly me. Fall asleep twice, shame on supercilious. #artwiculate
  • DrMobs
    35
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    Don't be so pedantic. Even though it doesn't specify, the burger will taste better if you take the plastic off the cheese slice.
  • CaliforniaKara
    35
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    Pedantic? Can't be bothered to play today.
  • goldenskye
    35
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    Pedantic Penny palpated the patient's pedal pulse to prove peripheral perfusion.
  • K_Geddings
    35
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    The pedantic prig picked a peck of pickled parentheses from my punctuation plant.

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