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Definition of Bookishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookishly
Literary usage of Bookishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammatical Analyzer; Or, The Derivation and Definition of Words with by William Jewett Tenney (1866)
"Let the suffix ly be annexed to the word bookish and it becomes bookishly.
The modified form of the radical idea is again changed, and signifies the ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"... eras in France conversation gave the style to books and in the dull periods
conversely books gave the style to conversation and people talked bookishly. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"A bookishly inclined boy, he acquired in childhood that taste for desultory
reading of which late in life he was to be the zealous defender ; and long ..."
4. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"Our booksellers, perhaps, write for but few, but the reason is that a multitude
of our people trade more or less to London; and all that are bookishly ..."
5. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells (1920)
"... with students lounging bookishly on the turf (as if tenderly to spare it the
pressure of their boot-heels), and with the great conservative presence of ..."
6. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"Cultivated Americans talk more bookishly and are more alienated from the vernacular
than the corresponding class of Europeans. They use slang and common ..."
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