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donnish

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7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted dhinnosStarts with DEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Overly academic, bookish, or pedantic.

Word origin

From don (professor) + -ish.

Used in a sentence

  • The proctor was a gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance.
  • The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory.

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