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
Ban’t beggin’, as he knaws, for nobody doubts you’m the most book-learned man in Chagford after parson.”
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
And Tommy’s face displayed such eminent satisfaction that Wade had not the heart to destroy the man’s belief that his book-learned boss had adopted a part of the woods creed of the supernatural.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
