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Keith said she was “really cute” and looked “bookish” in her glasses.
DATE LAB: ‘THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF THE DATE WAS WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT RATING IT’VIJAI NATHANAPRIL 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA popular athlete and a bookish social pariah start a secret relationship while in high school, then float in and out of each other’s lives as they journey into adulthood.
WASHINGTON POST PAPERBACK BESTSELLERSJANUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBorn in 1903 in the tiny dusty colonial outpost of Pietersburg, in northern South Africa, Plomer was bookish and reclusive.
THE MILD-MANNERED POET WHO CHAMPIONED JAMES BONDFIONA ZUBLINNOVEMBER 30, 2020OZYHere at last was a home for the nerdy, the bookish, the hypercompetent others.
IN THE DUMBEST AND DARKEST OF TIMES, ALEX TREBEK MAINTAINED A SAFE SPACE FOR INTELLIGENCEHANK STUEVERNOVEMBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POSTTechnical words and bookish terms are not words of national use.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERIt all came back in cash to the working man; and yet it was my own pals who had rebuked me for being too bookish.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVISI envy you the acquaintance of a genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTIt was only geography that morning, any way: and the practical thing was worth any quantity of bookish theoric.
THE GOLDEN AGEKENNETH GRAHAMEHe seemingly was a bookish young man who would probably enjoy hunting a Greek verb to its lair.
RUTH FIELDING IN THE RED CROSSALICE B. EMERSONThere are authors who are the delight of a bookish few, and there are authors with an enormous public and no reputation.
ESSAYS ON MODERN NOVELISTSWILLIAM LYON PHELPSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO BOOKISH
- abstruse
- academic
- accomplished
- bookish
- brainy
- conversant
- cultivated
- cultured
- deep
- educated
- erudite
- esoteric
- experienced
- expert
- grave
- grounded
- highbrow
- in the know
- intellectual
- judicious
- lettered
- literary
- literate
- omniscient
- pansophic
- pedantic
- philosophic
- philosophical
- polymath
- posted
- professorial
- recondite
- sage
- sapient
- scholarly
- scientific
- sharp
- skilled
- solemn
- solid
- sound
- studied
- studious
- versed
- well-educated
- well-grounded
- well-read
- well-rounded
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