scholarly

I wondered if I needed to be scholarly.

“There’s been a lot of rigorous scholarly studies and thinking behind all of the different conservation aspects of the site,” said Luce.

For the literary circles I travel in, I sometimes wonder if watch-wearers think it makes them look more intellectual, scholarly.

Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound.

His earlier works include the acclaimed "Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination" and a scholarly study of plagiarism and originality in 19th-century English literature.