Bookish Definition

Bookish Sentence Examples

• A bookish man with glasses, wearing a white lab coat, opened the door to the small house.

• Belle, star of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, is a bookish yet beautiful girl who agrees to live in the Beast's castle in exchange for the promise of her father's safety.

• The women on the first season of Momma's Boys ranged from Penthouse Pets to bookish librarian types.

• It is with Aristotle that the bookish tradition begins to dominate the evolution of logic. The technical perfection of the analysis which he offers is, granted the circle of presuppositions within which it works, so decisive, that what precedes, even Plato's logic, is not unnaturally regarded as merely preliminary and subsidiary to it.

• With the important exception of the Prince of Wales, the current royal family is not very bookish.