bookishness

Example Sentences

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A precocious scholar and the editor of Lewis and Clark’s journals, Biddle might be America’s best-read central banker, though his bookishness cut no mustard with Andrew Jackson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

On the other side of that “Mark Twain” quote, Island Books’ blue-carpeted interior conveys immediate bookishness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

But these summer releases also share the paradoxical quality of being light on what you might call bookishness; they offer simple pleasures, minimal conflict and page after page of low-key charm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

What Elvis and Maite have in common—even if, for most of the novel, neither realizes it—is bookishness and, especially, their taste in music.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2021

Barack’s dedication to reading had brought out a new bookishness in me.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama