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Pedantic
Answer for the clue "Pedantic ", 9 letters:
dryasdust
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n. A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer
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Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels ; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities involved. ...
Usage examples of dryasdust.
Strong does not belong to the School of Dryasdust, he treats his books as human documents, and his literary friends as beings of flesh and blood.
Calumnious Dryasdusts would sometimes insolently father their title on James I.