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bookish
adjective as in scholarly
Example Sentences
He seemed a bookish sort of fellow, with a serious face and heavy straight eyebrows that sloped downward over his dark eyes.
Daddy would have stood for a moment, taking in all the details and admiring the bookish young men and women scurrying past on their way to class.
But he kept coming back to a classic: a slender, bookish typeface famously used in Apple’s “Think Different” campaign.
His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.
From her bookish Ohio upbringing to her early forays into feature writing, her anecdotes sing with the pleasure of a person born to her passion and purpose.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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