schoolmaster
noun
a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
schoolmasterly
-
a word derived from
schoolmaster.
Example Sentences
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Two is pretty terrible and three might signify run-of-the-mill mediocrity or an implicit, schoolmasterly “could do better”.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2020
Grammarly’s claret-red error stripe, underlining my spelling mistakes, is not as schoolmasterly as Google Docs’ stop-sign-red squiggle; I felt less in error somehow.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Yet renewed agonies over Greece have sometimes found the euro zone in a more schoolmasterly mood.
From Economist ● Mar. 12, 2015
At an official dinner in 1976 when Don and Elsie Revie were sitting next to Thompson, Ramsey's eventual long-term successor objected to his employer's supercilious schoolmasterly form of address.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2012
"And now I will teach you the art of making it exactly as it was taught to me," he said with a very schoolmasterly air.
From Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl by Edgar Jepson
