purists's Usage Examples:

Many lizards, however, retain the eggs in the oviducts until the embryo is fully developed; these species then bring forth living young and are called ovo-viviparous by purists.

For the Advent purists this is of course anathema.

He was so often accused by political purists for associating politically with men of discredited reputation that his own picturesque statement of his conversion to a belief that in legislative or administrative politics one must work with all sorts and conditions of men is illuminating.

This may irritate the purists but seems congruent with the call to action and pragmatic approach within.

This map was designed for saber purists that enjoy full force, saber only, team game modes.

Caveats were mentioned by the dance purists.

3 Illiger may be considered the founder of the school of nomenclatural purists.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz: While Sony and Microsoft purists probably have never heard of -- or cared for -- the Super Monkey Ball franchise, GameCube owners fell in love with the mini-games in the original.

Some purists claim it 's tacky to garnish a Bloody Mary with a stalk of celery instead of the traditional swizzle stick.

Machiavelli had formed for himself a prose style, equalled by no one but by Guicciardini in his minor works, which was far removed from the emptiness of the latinizing humanists and the trivialities of the Italian purists.

Pesto purists, the contestants mince, crush and pulverize the pungent varieties of basil, mix it with classic cheeses and experiment with everything from the traditional pine nuts to black beans and jicama.

ire of purists, but fans have found that their appetite for her music continues to grow exponentially.

It would take the most elitist of football purists to dislike Sensible Soccer 2006.

Synonyms:

bookworm, scholastic, pedant,

Antonyms:

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