(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.
Booky
Definition:
(a.) Bookish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
(2) 2.41am BST Spurs 25-27 Heat - end of the 1st quarter Email from Roger Kirkby: And here we are, game six, TV happy, bookies happy, game on.
(3) That’s not a prediction, just the price that was available at my local bookies this morning.
(4) The 44-year-old performer was the bookies' favourite to claim the Oscar, despite a recent repeat of accusations that director Allen had abused his infant daughter, Dylan.
(5) He even put money on a Tory victory at the bookies.
(6) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
(7) Another Tour win, and hopefully people will see him differently, but mine and the bookies' money are not on our Kenyan-born Brit.
(8) Lincoln is currently the bookies' favourite to win the best picture nomination.
(9) Miliband said a number of councils had passed motions to ban bookies from the high street.
(10) Odds 20-1 Social media’s favourite, and the bookies’ outsider.
(11) It is just a week into the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham , the frontrunner according to the bookies, admits that it already seems to have “lasted for ever”.
(12) The bookies have not waited for the announcement of the results of the ballot and have already paid out.
(13) Kennedy described the new role, which hasn’t yet been cast, as “probably in the high teens, low 20s” , which should have the bookies scrambling to lower the odds on Breaking Bad’s 34-year-old Aaron Paul getting the role.
(14) Presenters kept shouting that Ed was now the bookies' favourite.
(15) With minor parties, from Greens to the BNP, doing their disruptive best, the bookies too are hedging their odds.
(16) A victory for AV would be a boost and the more so for now being regarded by bookies and pollsters as a remote possibility.
(17) Despite losing in the final, Boyle has been tipped to make millions from a singing career and bookies are already predicting a number one chart hit in America.
(18) With its lack of big names and its potential contenders that have yet to be published, the longlist has elicited wildly divergent assessments from bookies, with three different favourites – O'Neill for William Hill, Mukherjee for Ladbrokes and Flanagan for Paddy Power – and agreement only that Mitchell (expertly described in Paddy Power's press release as "the comedian David Mitchell") will be among the front-runners and Ali Smith and Jacobson not far behind.
(19) They’re tied for the third-best record in all of baseball and even though their pitching has been lights out in the second half bookies ain’t believin’ in the Birds.
(20) The club are apparently considering the credentials of the 60-year-old Yilmaz Vural, who has managed at 20 clubs in his native Turkey, while the bookies' favourite is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.