book-learned

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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

I was trained in a different school, and my motto's good work for good wage; But the sweaters and spouters between 'em spoil that in this book-learned age.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various

And we thought Reb Shloimeh such a sage, such a clever man, so book-learned.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

Well, Romeo takes a thought, an' goes to a friar, a kind o' priest, as was a very book-learned man, and asks if he can help him.

From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie