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pedantry
noun
(ped-ant-ry)
an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
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pedant
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pomposity
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prolixity
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philistinism
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pretentiousness
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facetiousness
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pompousness
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sophistry
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wordiness
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triteness
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pretension
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fatuity
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sanctimony
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affectation
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journalese
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pithiness
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reductionism
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circumlocution
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syllogisms
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nabokovian
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tautologies
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lit crit
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crudities
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literalism
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attitudinizing
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scatology
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pathetic fallacy
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profundity
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moralizing
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moralism
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logical positivism
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lexicography
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hauteur
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hyperboles
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gerunds
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illogic
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nosiness
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tu quoque
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slovenliness
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lexis
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sophism
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infelicities
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incoherency
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pedantry
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