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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
Adjective
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Noticeably out of place with his full head of gray hair, rectangular glasses and professorial demeanor, Kennedy wandered among the crowd of cops and deputies, eyes peeled for suspicious ink.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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His tone can be professorial with occasional flashes of bone-dry humor.—
Matina Stevis-Gridneff,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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His pedagogical contributions were formally recognized in 2017 when the Missouri Bar extolled his substantial influence on professional legal education.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
10 June 2025
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Recognized for her pedagogical excellence, Dr. Washington has garnered accolades such as the Excellence in Teaching 2021 award and inclusion in Poet and Quants’ 40 under 40 MBA Professors in 2023.—
Dr. Ella F. Washington,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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Solar Power’s acoustic shampoo-commercial pop signified a degree of freedom from the usual rueful, bookish synth-pop grind.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2025
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.—
Scott Brown,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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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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Quinta Brunson’s scholastic sitcom has been renewed for Season 5 at ABC.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
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Thurmond and Newsom praised Clinton Elementary School and Compton Unified School District officials for their students’ scholastic achievements.—
Dave Mason,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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“Donnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donnish. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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