(a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
(a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(2) Trump insisted that he is a believer in free trade and declared: “I am not an isolationist.” But it was hard to escape the testy relationship between the bookish woman now seen as a crucial bulwark of the postwar liberal order and the brash businessman who rose to power on a populist tide.
(3) I was bookish and spectacled and I was really quite glad to move to a different sort of school."
(4) I’m a writer, a bookish soul, so style preoccupies me.
(5) "I guess David was the more bookish and Ed the more outgoing, but that's about it."
(6) I, for one, don't want to see the high streets of the future without their bookshops, which offer places to browse, community events, and bookish chat.
(7) My parents weren't that bookish, but they were devoted readers to me.
(8) It is a sad day when even the Booker is afraid to be bookish … People want to think.
(9) The Tsar of Love and Techno is published 6 October by Knopf Facebook Twitter Pinterest Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire Photograph: Publicity City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg The mere sale of this novel – for a reported $2m, following hard upon news that it had been optioned by the movie producer Scott Rudin – caused a kind of sensation in bookish circles.
(10) The group occupied the building in protest at plans to close the library temporarily, reopening it as a “bookish gym”, with paid leisure services run by social enterprise GLL, and a smaller selection of books for borrowers.
(11) In fact, she has written a coming-of-age story: an involving, evocative tale that will have bookish women everywhere shuddering in recognition.
(12) Bechdel was operating under the assumption that the book would be read by the same audience as her fortnightly comic strip, Dykes To Watch Out For, about the domestic lives of a group of bookish lesbians, which has been syndicated in several alternative American newspapers for more than two decades.
(13) They are just sleeping on cardboard, nothing to keep them warm.” Behbudi has the slightly distracted air of a bookish academic, but his appearance belies a life of insecurity that left little time for education.
(14) When me and my sister started writing a sitcom about teenagers, we wanted to write about all the most agonising and awful things about being a teenage girl, and my hopeless non-affair with Pavid Dreen became the basis of the first episode: there's nothing quite like a fat, bookish teenage girl who wants to be "noble", and accidentally says "forsooth!"
(15) He was a friendly, easy-going youth - some might call him lazy; he was certainly anything but bookish.
(16) There's an undeniably bookish quality to Sebald's writing; despite his originality, some of his effects come from other writers.
(17) Griswold still finds that 15% or more of kids are deeply bookish.
(18) The air of clubbishness, a cool, bookish intimacy, persists.
(19) The suave, silver-fox proprietor, Antony Farrell, keeps the press running with the aid of an ever-rotating crew of young interns, giving the premises the vibe of an affable and bookish Bond villain’s lair.
(20) Labour’s bookish new leader has nothing personal against the country’s largest landowners.
Bookworm
Definition:
(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She is a very private person after all, a bookworm really, she once said.
(2) But he argued that his hard labour in the fields had prevented him from studying and attacked "bookworms who ignored their proper occupations" and craved a college education for their own selfish benefits.
(3) She has just got a job in publishing and is a real bookworm, so her advice was valuable.
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(5) Other changes include "housemistress" becoming "teacher", "awful swotter" becoming "bookworm", "mother and father" becoming "mum and dad", "school tunic" becoming "uniform" and Dick's comment that "she must be jolly lonely all by herself" being changed to "she must get lonely all by herself".
(6) Speaking last month at the Bookworm literary festival in Beijing, Hyeonseo Lee , a defector who fled North Korea in 1997, attacked Beijing’s treatment of North Korean defectors.
(7) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(8) I don’t have a problem with the term “gamer” – to me it signifies what “film buff” or “bookworm” does – someone who is heavily invested in the medium.
(9) Finally, you’ve found another bookworm – and you can judge them by what they’re reading (yes, Middlemarch; no, Ayn Rand).
(10) The ever-busy Cave's one-woman show, Bookworm, debuts at the Edinburgh festival fringe this summer.
(11) In those days, any self-respecting teenage bookworm went to school with a Penguin Modern Classic tucked in a blazer pocket.