book-learned
Example Sentences
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Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Walshingham did his best with epigrams and reservations, but even to Kipps it was evident that this was a book-learned depravity.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Because the things that he fancies he’s going to see don’t really exist, nor never yet did in spite of what book-learned people may say!
From Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by Anonymous
Of what use was her book-learned wisdom in the face of this, it vanished into thin air.
From To Love by Margaret Peterson
