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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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In academia, Soyinka has held professorial and visiting positions at universities around the world.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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George’s only hope of hanging onto the ridiculously extravagant life he’s pitched to Hedda is securing a professorial position at the local university.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
28 Oct. 2025
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One-by-one the students came up to the mic to say silly phrases that Sheeran looped together to form a rhythm, earning praise from the teachers for his pedagogical skills.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
22 Oct. 2025
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This collaboration spurred me to reflect on college newspapers and my own pedagogical approach as a librarian to media literacy.—
Joshua Finnell,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Oct. 2025
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The mother-daughter dramedy – centered around fast-talking mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and her bookish teen daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) in their small, fictional Connecticut town of Stars Hollow – has cemented itself as a cult classic in TV history.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Jennifer’s Body follows two polar opposite best friends, the outgoing Jennifer and bookish Needy (Amanda Seyfried), whose friendship takes a turn when the former embarks on a murderous rampage of her male classmates.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
26 Oct. 2025
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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
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Morris played both baseball and football in high school, and was a scholastic All-State quarterback who reportedly turned down 20 collegiate offers to sign with the Phillies for $25,000 in 1960.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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For true scholastic style, pair it with penny loafers or Mary Janes.—
Francesca Krempa,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Oct. 2025
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Like, the nerdy part of that is very interesting to me.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Portrayed with great humor, and a light touch barely ever achieved by young actors, Devi’s best challenges involve boys—especially Ben, her nerdy competition for top of the class, and Paxton—a hot athlete.—
John Ortved,
Vogue,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Donnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donnish. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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