单词 | donnish |
释义 | donnish (once / 113648 pages) adj WORD FAMILY donnish: donnishly+/don: donned, donning, donnish, dons USAGE EXAMPLESThere was no donnish fussiness in his manner, just knowledge, which he was happy to share. The New Yorker(Aug 25, 2016) Although some readers found these asides a little donnish, the dispensation of particulars achieved a sensuous flow: you could go swimming in Porter’s omniscience. The New Yorker(Apr 04, 2015) Bullying - The Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert, a man with donnish levels of detail, complained of being "bullied" in the Commons chamber. BBC(Dec 24, 2013) adj marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects Syn academic, pedantic scholarly characteristic of scholars or scholarship |
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