Example Sentences

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The president - a wealthy businessman - spoke with almost nerdish enthusiasm about investment and infrastructure projects, about reducing the cost of doing business, cutting red tape, improving broadband connectivity and so on.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2019

“Whitehall boffins are trying to demarcate areas of knowledge and culture, trying to distill them into British identity, which is kind of amorphous,” he added, using a British term for a nerdish expert.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2017

In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2016

Although his hair is grey, his eyes behind the unfashionable glasses are those of an unhappy, nerdish boy.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2016

Under his nerdish SF-fan exterior is a core of iron.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce