bookish in the PONS Dictionary

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She thinks she is plain, bookish, and too smart for her own good.
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A bookish man, he avoided society, and buried himself in his ample library.
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He inserts into them a lost feeling, so that the song in this rendition does not have a bookish feeling.
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She has given new definitions to both our bookish titles and language.
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His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward.
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Furthermore, many dogs look similar to their owners: a slender, bookish man may find his eyewear paralleled on his dachshund.
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Marrying her bookish sensibilities with cruciverbal skills is an inspired idea.
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A bookish cultural youth, he indulges in fantasy and music.
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This text bookish approach has made science a very drab and uninteresting subject in the impressionable minds of young children.
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He's not particularly good-looking, is bookish, knows lots of useless information about the life-cycle of fruit flies and gets tongue-twisted in the presence of girls.
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