bookish
Example Sentences
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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.
From Barron's
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.
From Los Angeles Times
As a child, Baldwin is marginalized for being too sensitive, too bookish, a “sissy.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the kind of warm romance that will make any bookish dreamer swoon, as a thoroughly modern woman with old-fashioned ideas about love experiences her own Austenesque tumble.
From Los Angeles Times
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