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
What Gilbert Stanning thought of it all is another matter; Joan with all her book-learned wisdom had not fathomed his character.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret
I am glad," he said, "that you are book-learned; but, my friend, you have forgotten the world of illusion!
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
And we thought Reb Shloimeh such a sage, such a clever man, so book-learned.
From Yiddish Tales by Various
