donnish
Example Sentences
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Mr. Boorman comes across as donnish, astute and likable, but also arrogant and dismissive of legitimate concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
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 looks rather an ascetic--rather donnish, don't you think?
From Jason by Justus Miles Forman
