schoolish

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Tweedy, public schoolish, formal in manner, Britten was no extrovert.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun of oft-stated positions and oft-used phrases on both sides.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next evening the Orderly-Sergeant handed Shorty a badly-thumb-marked and blotted yellow envelope, on which was scrawled in a very schoolish hand: "To Mister Corpril Elliott, "Co.

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John

As a result they become habitually tired, unsympathetic, and narrow, and therefore schoolish.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)