book-learned
- a word derived from book learning.
Example Sentences
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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
I still had hopes—for pride attends us still— Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert
I am glad," he said, "that you are book-learned; but, my friend, you have forgotten the world of illusion!
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
