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erudite

adjective as in well-educated, cultured

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Example Sentences

The gentle, erudite soul within a body the public considered an oddity is the contrast at the heart of “The Elephant Man.”

Patricia Clarkson gets to show off both as the woman who becomes fascinated with the erudite monster.

Armed with a plan that was equal parts erudite and dauntless, Burger plunged into the project, rising to every challenge.

Erudite is trying to wrestle control of the government away from Abnegation via nefarious schemes.

But unlike Bloom and Eagleton, his books have been, while erudite and incisive, unashamedly populist.

The reply, prepared in this way and finally adopted by the Assembly, was longer and more erudite than Mr. Hutchinson's address.

Still it is not to the erudite, nor to the imaginative only, that it is given to please in conversation.

"I do not wonder at your defence of your erudite suitor," said Josephine, laying a disagreeable stress upon the adjective.

There was something mathematical in his effort after dry correctness and erudite accuracy.

The stately and erudite work of Francis Parkman is a fair example.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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