bookishness

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• Keith said she was “really cute” and looked “bookish” in her glasses.

• A popular athlete and a bookish social pariah start a secret relationship while in high school, then float in and out of each other’s lives as they journey into adulthood.

• Born in 1903 in the tiny dusty colonial outpost of Pietersburg, in northern South Africa, Plomer was bookish and reclusive.

• Here at last was a home for the nerdy, the bookish, the hypercompetent others.

• Aloof and bookish, Pius XI (Achille Ratti) spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal.

• Margot, three years older than Anne, was quiet and bookish but still a part of things.

• Poet Jackie Kay said of the nominees, “It is a sad day when even the Booker is afraid to be bookish.”

• Especially when you look at the other side of the bracket and see bookish James Thurber.

• Great new novels on hippie California, a bookish adventure, and the gritty Midwest.

• Technical words and bookish terms are not words of national use.

• It all came back in cash to the working man; and yet it was my own pals who had rebuked me for being too bookish.

• I envy you the acquaintance of a genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.

• It was only geography that morning, any way: and the practical thing was worth any quantity of bookish theoric.

• He seemingly was a bookish young man who would probably enjoy hunting a Greek verb to its lair.