donnish
Example Sentences
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In his cap and gown, he looked whatever the opposite of donnish is.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019
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
In fact, this biography reads like two books: one an intelligent, even donnish work of criticism that connects the poems to the life, the other a sensationalistic anthology of gossip and subdued malice.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 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 Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
