schoolmasterish
- a word derived from schoolmaster.
Example Sentences
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Bryan kept losing his temper with us, coming over all schoolmasterish, and we tried to get serious.
From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2016
Unlike the fiction it was sensible, sceptical, rather schoolmasterish in tone, as if he'd supposed he was writing for ideological fools.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012
The man assigned to superintend the greatest moving day in history was dapper, schoolmasterish Major General Royal B. Lord of the Corps of Engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, hour after hour, the one-eyed, stocky Viceroy, Lord Wavell, aged, infirm Lord Pethick-Lawrence, jolly A. V. Alexander and smiling, schoolmasterish Sir Stafford Cripps heard their visitors out.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected.
From "1984" by George Orwell
