adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bookish language
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Bill was the studious, bookish type.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types.
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Anthony Hopkins plays a bookish billionaire with a head full of unused facts.
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Arthur Frommer is a bookish sort of guy.
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Fanshawe was not a bookish child, however.
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It should surely be essential for every school, library and bookish home in the country.
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Nor is he an old-fashioned, bookish poet with antiquarian tendencies like Tennyson.
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This is a further indication of the influence of bookish language on the spoken style.