as in teachers
                            disapproving 
                                  
              
          
                                                      a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details                                       
              
                             They found the professor to be a dull pedant more concerned with the intricacies of punctuation than the craft of writing.                         
                
                                                                                      
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