donnish
Example Sentences
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Instead, long stretches of the book read like disparate essays on donnish life, fads and internecine disagreements, strung together in a sequence that never coheres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
During a long, donnish life he also found time to co-write the only dictionary for Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone.
From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2018
Although some readers found these asides a little donnish, the dispensation of particulars achieved a sensuous flow: you could go swimming in Porter’s omniscience.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2015
Bullying - The Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert, a man with donnish levels of detail, complained of being "bullied" in the Commons chamber.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2013
He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee
