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

But when the reporters began to dig into ticklish subjects, F.D.R. could be chilly, huffy or schoolmasterish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baking in the floodlights that shone for the spider-legged newsreel and television cameras, Iowa's schoolmasterish Senator Bourke Hickenlooper suddenly began to look more like the defendant than the prosecutor.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected.

From "1984" by George Orwell