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
Forth went the earls, forth went the lords, forth went the bishops, and the book-learned men, forth went the thanes, forth went the swains, all the Britons, until they came to London.
From Brut by Mason, Eugene
The great poet was no mere book-learned speculator.
From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.
Young Walshingham did his best with epigrams and reservations, but even to Kipps it was evident that this was a book-learned depravity.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
