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
I think when I meet those arguments I tend to become a bit donnish, perhaps slightly finger-wagging.
From BBC ● May 31, 2017
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
In spite of its timid conservatism and rather donnish society, as Professor Child termed it, it was one of the pleasantest places to live in on this side the Atlantic.
From Cambridge Sketches by Frank Preston Stearns
