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bookish

adjective as in scholarly

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He seemed a bookish sort of fellow, with a serious face and heavy straight eyebrows that sloped downward over his dark eyes.

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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.

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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.

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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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