bookish
adjective
given or devoted to reading or study.
unbookish
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a word derived from
bookish.
Example Sentences
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This was shockingly unbookish behavior made worse by flabbergasting audacity.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Growing up in Consett, the only child of a scientist and a lovely but utterly unbookish mother, I encountered in yours the first ‘woman of letters’ I had met.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 27, 2016
The man who buys from him retains His purchase long as life remains, And then he doesn’t mind If his unbookish eager heirs, Administering his affairs, Shall throw them to the wind.
From In the Track of the Bookworm by Irving Browne
We already know how to reach the heathen, the unbookish, the unthinking—but how reach the educated—the science-bitten?
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
When an unbookish individual is in the dumps, he is conscious of his own misery, but he does not attribute it to all the world.
From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers
