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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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The voice turned more professorial, clinical.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
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Restrepo, who was wearing professorial glasses and a dark suit, went first.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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But most of the podcast’s lineup reflects his pedagogical aims.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And yet Klein, in his distinctly bookish and measured approach, sometimes recalls an Obamian voice, if the former President had been a journalist with a beard, tattoos, and a predilection for Burning Man.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Jimbōchō is home to some 130 vintage book stores — Time Out highlights Isseido Booksellers and Kitazawa Bookstore as great starting points for a day of bookish exploring — as well as its coffee-shop culture and delicious curry houses.—
Francesca Street,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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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For true scholastic style, pair it with penny loafers or Mary Janes.—
Francesca Krempa,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2025
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His family wasn’t shy about shouting out his scholastic achievements on social media.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Following his turn as the nerdy and neurotic Michael, David Krumholtz continued his role as head elf Bernard in 2002's The Santa Clause 2, and reprised the part on an episode of the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses in 2022.—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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These two were both nerdy and sweet, and shared a certain endearing awkwardness.—
Sarah John,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Donnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donnish. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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