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comparative more bookish, superlative most bookish
Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result. quotations examples
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. […] This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
1783, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, page 16
A Google search reveals Gendrot has no great internet or social media footprint, but in any case, he says, the police recruiters did not delve into his background. He did change his round spectacles to look less “bookish”.
2020 September 3, Kim Willsher, “French reporter who joined police exposes racism and violence”, in The Guardian
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books. quotations examples
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]
1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, part 1
Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.
1996, Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy, page 50