bookish in the PONS Dictionary

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He has described his own childhood behavior as bookish and bizarre.
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A bookish man, he avoided society, and buried himself in his ample library.
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As a person the new sultan was described as bookish and introvert.
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She received a basic education and was considered a bookish girl.
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Bookish, anti-social, and possessor of modern ideas regarding the working class.
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He is also one of the less popular members of his team, due to his bookish nature.
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At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but the bookish boy was not suited to business.
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He is patient and bookish, preferring wisdom over strength.
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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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Blood and soil plays, for instance, depicted a woman rejecting her bookish fiance in order to marry an estate owner.
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