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
His precise, schoolmasterly hand would surely be easier to imitate than Sebastian's queer, crabbed characters, and there's no telling how or when my skill may be of use to me.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams
