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

That he could do a better thing is proved by his essay on Keats, which, after he has done with his droning, schoolmasterly defence of Keats's morals, is eloquent, serene and restrainedly emotional.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert