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Recent Examples of donnish
Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.
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Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for donnish
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Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.—
Richard Hughes IV,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
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Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Washington and Lee has accordingly established a modern reputation for intellectual pluralism and pedagogical excellence.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Nadjari oversaw the development of the studio’s proprietary workflows, while Ricca, who has built education curricula and large-scale experiential projects, shaped the platform’s emotional and pedagogical framework.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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There’s no shortage of young women making confessional, wry pop music these days, but Hobert has carved out her own lane with a bookish persona and shrewdly specific lyrics bound in tidy and broadly appealing pop songs.—
Carrie Battan,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2026
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As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.—
Joshua Hunt,
New York Times,
12 June 2024
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Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.—
Rachel Tashjian,
Harper's BAZAAR,
8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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In a white paper released in October, the committee recommends moving the men’s game, and perhaps the women’s, from the current fall-only schedule to one that covers the entire scholastic year and culminates in an April playoff festival.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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But the behavior that needs correcting in this era of billion-dollar-a-year TV contracts and other accelerant revenues is that of shopaholic college administrators, whose expenditures have become so untethered from any scholastic purpose.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
20 Nov. 2025
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Otis… oh, sweet, dear, nerdy Otis.—
Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Jan. 2026
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After a prologue suggesting that creepy things were happening at a government lab, the pilot was mostly introducing viewers to a group of nerdy friends who would soon be joined by a mysterious telekinetic girl with short hair in Hawkins, Indiana, circa 1983.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Donnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donnish. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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