bookish

This, in the calendar of bookish misdemeanors, is the crime of crimes.

Art this one, science that; to Joe adventure, to Tom a bookish habit.

To a bookish man—I mean a man who can manage to collect books—there is no tax.

Above all, they objected to the bookish education which she was giving to her son, the young King.

I do not mean that he is boorish or eccentric, merely that he is bookish and self-absorbed.

Perhaps it was his nearly bald scalp, perhaps the thick, bookish glasses in heavy brown frames.

The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality.

He's vulgar and hysterical and bookish, but don't think that sums him up.

For I was a self-conscious, bookish child, and my days of real friendship with him were still far ahead.

Let me touch you at least on your bookish side and the others may bristle with heroics.