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
Now, don't you git skeered, fer I'm not goin' to be foolish, an' I know I'm not book-learned an' refined, same ez your city gals.
From Frank Merriwell Down South by Standish, Burt L.
But when he saw she was book-learned, Fast to his horse hied he....’
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
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
