bookish

Example Sentences

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Dan, as bookish as he is athletic, approaches matters in a calmer register: “How should I conduct my life? Do you trust yourself, or do you not?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

It’s a simplistic vision of the world that could appeal to and be well understood by bookish children like me.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

Standing on the touchline wearing his bookish glasses and polo neck jumper while holding a notebook, Rosenior looked more like a young college lecturer than a Premier League manager.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

But he kept coming back to a classic: a slender, bookish typeface famously used in Apple’s “Think Different” campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Barristan Selmy was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin