Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
school ;scholastic . - adjective Characteristic of
school rather thanreal life ;pedantic ,pedagogical , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While your computer brain is working on that task, please, understand my only purpose here is to try to get you and your comrades to engage in thoughtful discussion rather than feeble high schoolish put downs and barbs.
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While your computer brain is working on that task, please, understand my only purpose here is to try to get you and your comrades to engage in thoughtful discussion rather than feeble high schoolish put downs and barbs.
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EVEN I feel embarrassed for Sanford, he is acting so high-schoolish it is comical.
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Sarah Palin represents the worst in America: hollow speech full of cliches and junior high schoolish whining.
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Putting it in the YA section is not necessarily (or even probably) an act of censorship, if that's where you put all your other middle-schoolish books.
Archive 2009-02-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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In the case of the Japanese-born Nara, this exhibition featuring more that 100 of his works -- from paintings, drawings, illustrations, album covers and installations -- shows how he evolved from a more traditional art-schoolish approach to painting to become a leading proponent of the neo-pop kawa-kawai creepy cute school of pop-art.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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In the case of the Japanese-born Nara, this exhibition featuring more that 100 of his works -- from paintings, drawings, illustrations, album covers and installations -- shows how he evolved from a more traditional art-schoolish approach to painting to become a leading proponent of the neo-pop kawa-kawai creepy cute school of pop-art.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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In the case of the Japanese-born Nara, this exhibition featuring more that 100 of his works -- from paintings, drawings, illustrations, album covers and installations -- shows how he evolved from a more traditional art-schoolish approach to painting to become a leading proponent of the neo-pop kawa-kawai creepy cute school of pop-art.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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In the case of the Japanese-born Nara, this exhibition featuring more that 100 of his works -- from paintings, drawings, illustrations, album covers and installations -- shows how he evolved from a more traditional art-schoolish approach to painting to become a leading proponent of the neo-pop kawa-kawai creepy cute school of pop-art.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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In the end, and assuming we will see a shrinkage of publishers 'lists due both to economics and in the way people parcel out their attention to the various recreational media, I wonder if YA books (the high-schoolish ones, anyway) will become subsumed again into general trade fiction, reaching a dual audience without laying claim to either one in particular.
Archive 2009-04-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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