Pedantic in a sentence as an adjective

I think it's a bit pedantic to argue about his usage of "desire".

That's true, but you asked a group of pedantic programmers.

At the beginning of his message so that his followers would see it. >>It seems a bit pedantic.

I always said, "add '-ansi -pedantic -Wall' to the compile flags and come back to me when you cleared that wall of warnings down to nothing".

However, if you know much about the history and formation of English, you should be less pedantic.

Well, yes, if you get pedantic about it, the constitution is really kind of a greatest-hits mix tape of English Law.

Your point-by-point answer focuses on the details of his post rather than his general point, and makes your answer both pedantic and accusatory.

It would also not surprise me to learn that he's a pedantic basement-dweller, but I don't think, given what we've learned, it's conspiratorial or paranoid to suppose that this is governmental control.

Pro tip: when you develop with gcc, don't settle for anything less than gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall\n\nAt university I often had people coming to me and asking, "my program compiles correctly, but it keeps crashing / doing weird things; what did I do wrong?".

Pedantic definitions

adjective

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

See also: academic donnish