donnish
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There was a “recognition that donnish brainpower—whether embodied in scientific experts, staff office strategists, temporary civil servants or economists tasked with Lend-Lease negotiations—had played a significant part in winning the war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
In his cap and gown, he looked whatever the opposite of donnish is.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
During a long, donnish life he also found time to co-write the only dictionary for Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone.
From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2018
I think when I meet those arguments I tend to become a bit donnish, perhaps slightly finger-wagging.
From BBC ● May 31, 2017
I thought that he was affecting the poet, and in me he found a donnish affectation of the British sportsman.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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