Sentence example with the word 'bookish'

bookish

academic, bluestocking, book-loving, book-wise, collegiate, donnish, highbrow, literary, pedantic, rabbinic, schoolboyish, studentlike

Definition adj. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading

Last update: September 10, 2015


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Being a bookish youth, he had been entrusted to M.   [Please select]

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Art this one, science that; to Joe adventure, to Tom a bookish habit.   [Please select]

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Here we have bookish dreams, a heart unhinged by theories.   [Please select]

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Even with hours of leisure, men who had been "bookish" could not read.   [Please select]

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It was part of Marian's pride in her father that he was a bookish man.   [Please select]

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Like "The Antiquary," it is bookish rather than natural.   [Please select]

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The authors were usually professional bookmen writing for a bookish public.   [Please select]

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His critical essays in the "Dial," his letters and the bookish allusions throughout his writings, are evidence of rich harvesting in the records of the past.   [Please select]

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