schoolish

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Tweedy, public schoolish, formal in manner, Britten was no extrovert.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun of oft-stated positions and oft-used phrases on both sides.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a result they become habitually tired, unsympathetic, and narrow, and therefore schoolish.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)

The next evening the Orderly-Sergeant handed Shorty a badly-thumb-marked and blotted yellow envelope, on which was scrawled in a very schoolish hand: "To Mister Corpril Elliott, "Co.

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John