book-learned
Example Sentences
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Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
But then it will require the experience to give your book-learned wisdom its full force.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson
I’ve heard book-learned gentlemen say that the birds almost always fly in a line, directly north and south, influenced, no doubt, by the magnetic current which flows forever and ever in that direction.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
