Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Versed in books; acquainted with books and literature; hence, better acquainted with books than with men and the common concerns of life; bookish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Often in a disparaging sense. Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.
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- adjective Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.
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Examples
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Just because we have educated our younger people does not make them wiser, just more book-learned.
CNN Poll: Americans split on Obama's health care proposals 2009
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I know the heathen, and their oppressors, pretty well, you see, and the folly of sitting smug in judgment years after, stuffed with piety and ignorance and book-learned bias.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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I'm not book-learned enough to say with historic certainty that America pioneered the use of the minor-celebrity endorsement.
The Pork Endorsement Dave Hurteau 2008
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As she grew, which she did rapidly, she became smart in the way that beautiful young rich girls often are, book-learned but naïve.
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As she grew, which she did rapidly, she became smart in the way that beautiful young rich girls often are, book-learned but naïve.
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One of these men, Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins), happens to be an emotionally remote billionaire with a vast store of book-learned knowledge -- such as how to make a compass out of a leaf and a paper clip, and how to make fire out of ice.
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The transformation of sentiment into self-seeking, ordinarily slow, tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy in better educated people, was swift and direct in the old “bear,” who demonstrated the superiority of shrewd tipple-ography over book-learned typography.
Two Poets 2007
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The transformation of sentiment into self-seeking, ordinarily slow, tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy in better educated people, was swift and direct in the old “bear,” who demonstrated the superiority of shrewd tipple-ography over book-learned typography.
Two Poets 2007
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Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third
The American Scholar 2006
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I do not talk it well: but as I am not an Italian, and little more than book-learned in it (for it is a long time ago since I lost my grandfather, who used to converse with me in it, and in French) I was not scrupulous to answer in it.
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