Related Clues

• Doctrinaire
• Pretentious in one's teaching
• Showing off one's learning
• Stodgily erudite
• Like a know-it-all show-off
• Like a smug know-it-all
• Particular
• Bookish
• Overly focused on minor rules
• Schoolmasterly
• Over-concerned with correctness
• Nit-picking
• Fussy about correctness
• Pernickety poet finally coming to the fore in film
• Fussy over detail
• Fussy about small details
• Overly concerned with insignificant detail
• Academic takes exercise with daughter, the old buffoon!
• Nit-picking editor opposed to cutting inoffensive use of language
• Boringly explanatory