well-read
Example Sentences
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Well-read, well-rounded and very well connected, Hamill was at ease quoting poetry and Ernest Hemingway, dating Jacqueline Onassis or enjoying a drink and a cigarette at the old Lion’s Head tavern in Greenwich Village.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2020
Well-read, sensitive, and highly intelligent rather than intellectual, he was unsentimental in dealing with people.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2011
Well-read, interested in painting, the German takes seriously this chance at artistic expression and holds his end up well in a better cast than ever set off Dempsey's productions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-read, friendly Arthur Lichtenberger graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and went on to the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., for a degree of bachelor of sacred theology.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-read Scotland is peculiarly unanimous in the custom, and well-read America follows suit.
From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King
