donnish

In his cap and gown, he looked whatever the opposite of donnish is.

Simons has retained a donnish air from his days as a lecturer.

I think when I meet those arguments I tend to become a bit donnish, perhaps slightly finger-wagging.

Mark even looked like one of those donnish figures fictionalised in the pages of the Cold War thrillers he loved.

He still fires up the forge now and then, either to do donnish demonstrations for new hires or to make things: door hinges, fireplace sets, a shovel for his son’s pizza oven.