teacherish

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Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said: In Melbourne last week the Beach Purity League was excoriated by Police Magistrate Stafford.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia.

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"Splendid!" exclaimed eloquent, teacherish Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, who likes to think of himself in terms of the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936.

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Down beside President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors.

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Though she wasn’t a welcome sight to me, I admit she cut a teacherish figure.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck