schoolteacherish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schoolteacherish
First recorded in 1925–30; schoolteacher + -ish 1
Example Sentences
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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
Frau Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, German-born Dane, beat England's schoolteacherish Dorothy Round, while Poland's jolly Jadwiga Jedrzejowska jiggled baseline drives into corners where England's pretty Kay Stammers could not reach them, 6-2, 6-2.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shannon Tweed brings a sensible, almost schoolteacherish seriousness to her roles.
From Time Magazine Archive
No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it must be said that the very word has a repellent schoolteacherish sound.
From Etiquette by Emily Post
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