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
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
Thorolf.—I am not a book-learned man; yet must you, then, be exceedingly old and yet are not gray-haired.
From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton
What Gilbert Stanning thought of it all is another matter; Joan with all her book-learned wisdom had not fathomed his character.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret
