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
The great poet was no mere book-learned speculator.
From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.
He was, and is, a scholar—not merely book-learned, for he was one of the first three in a class of sixty in Saint Mary's Seminary, but the man of parts that bespeak the student.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
I wish I was more book-learned for your sake, old fellow.
From The Bushranger's Secret by Clarke, Henry, Mrs.
