schoolteacherish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schoolteacherish
First recorded in 1925–30; schoolteacher + -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Dry, schoolteacherish Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, 45, Trinidad's Chief Minister and political boss, did nothing to discourage this belief.
From Time Magazine Archive
Told by friends that his familiar rimless glasses made him appear "schoolteacherish," he showed up on the Senate floor in a new pair of dark horn rims.
From Time Magazine Archive
No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it must be said that the very word has a repellent schoolteacherish sound.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
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