bookish

non·book·ish·ness, nouno·ver·book·ish, adjectiveo·ver·book·ish·ly, adverbo·ver·book·ish·ness, nounun·book·ish, adjectiveun·book·ish·ly, adverbun·book·ish·ness, noun

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booking, booking agent, booking clerk, booking office, book into, bookish, book jacket, bookkeeping, book learning, booklet, booklet pane

How to use bookish in a sentence

When I couldn’t think of anything to say, I wrote notes furiously and perfected what I hoped was a bookish and curious presence in the hopes that people would assume my head was full of insightful observations rather than abject fear.
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Keith said she was “really cute” and looked “bookish” in her glasses.
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A popular athlete and a bookish social pariah start a secret relationship while in high school, then float in and out of each other’s lives as they journey into adulthood.
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Born in 1903 in the tiny dusty colonial outpost of Pietersburg, in northern South Africa, Plomer was bookish and reclusive.
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Here at last was a home for the nerdy, the bookish, the hypercompetent others.
In the dumbest and darkest of times, Alex Trebek maintained a safe space for intelligence|Hank Stuever|November 8, 2020|Washington Post
Aloof and bookish, Pius XI (Achille Ratti) spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal.
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Margot, three years older than Anne, was quiet and bookish but still a part of things.
Anne Frank’s Amsterdam|Russell Shorto|October 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Poet Jackie Kay said of the nominees, “It is a sad day when even the Booker is afraid to be bookish.”
The 12 Biggest Booker Prize Controversies|Thomas Flynn|July 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Especially when you look at the other side of the bracket and see bookish James Thurber.
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Great new novels on hippie California, a bookish adventure, and the gritty Midwest.
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Technical words and bookish terms are not words of national use.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
It all came back in cash to the working man; and yet it was my own pals who had rebuked me for being too bookish.
The Iron Puddler|James J. Davis
I envy you the acquaintance of a genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3)|George Eliot
It was only geography that morning, any way: and the practical thing was worth any quantity of bookish theoric.
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He seemingly was a bookish young man who would probably enjoy hunting a Greek verb to its lair.
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British Dictionary definitions for bookish

bookish

/ (ˈbʊkɪʃ) /

adjective

fond of reading; studious

consisting of or forming opinions or attitudes through reading rather than direct personal experience; academica bookish view of life

of or relating to booksa bookish career in publishing

Derived forms of bookish

bookishly, adverbbookishness, noun

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