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schoolish
adjective as in inkhorn
adjective as in pedantic
Example Sentences
Blaming someone else sounds so middle schoolish.
Is anyone else tiring of Trump's high schoolish "I might/might not fire you" dramatics?
“I know that’s probably being a little high schoolish in my thinking, but that’s how I’ve always approached it. I’m giving everything to this team and to the city, and hopefully we can do great things together.”
Still, he continued, “it opens the doors to new sounds. Because I think of mathematics as a means to an end. It’s not a means that a lot of people admire, because it seems too schoolish, so classroomish.”
If that sounds a bit too Sunday Schoolish, by the time you reach the “Fedora of Thorns,” you can smell the brimstone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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