bookish

Example Sentences

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Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

The rapidly growing rail system is a symbol of India’s modernization, and Charu’s bookish father, a workshop manager, believes in the progress it presages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

It’s a simplistic vision of the world that could appeal to and be well understood by bookish children like me.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

She could see the similarities between these two lonely children, even more clearly than they could: the same sensitive personalities lurking inside both of them, the same bookish wisdom layered over a deep naïveté.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng