bookish
adjective
given or devoted to reading or study.
bookishly
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a word derived from
bookish.
Example Sentences
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“At seventeen I met a thin, heavy-thighed, balding man who talked and talked, snobbishly, bookishly, and called me ‘Sweet.’
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2019
As Gerald Jacobs, the photographer’s son, recalls: “It was as a remarkable place, his studio, like a community centre...I think of it now, perhaps rather bookishly, as being lit by Caribbean sunshine.”
From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2018
However, your ambitious tour is both geographically and bookishly inspiring.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2018
Barry Jenkins is compact, bald, bespectacled and bookishly handsome.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
They do not talk bookishly about clouds or stones, or pigs or slugs, or horses or anything you please.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
