bookish

The noun, Geek has been used for years as American slang, to describe bookish, socially awkward people.

He did not know himself what he was going to say, but he began eagerly, using bookish Russian, and occasionally relapsing into French.

He's bookish and awkward with people he doesn't know. He's the kind of guy who goes home at night and does crossword puzzles with his wife.

Conclusion: don't go too far to do things by book. That will seem to be way bookish .

I never liked living in Candlekeep with its funny, bookish monks and the narrow look of a small town.

They know they ought to read to their children so they do. The kids are caught up in a bookish world.

A bookish bunch, the office members work in an ivy-covered building out of three rooms lined with books and musty card-catalog drawers.

If you found this article while searching for porn that fetishizes bookish bespectacled women, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

While not expecting to see bibliotherapists any time soon, Gulliver heartily agrees that many hotels are missing a bookish trick.

What if I simply benefited from a family love of books, or even inherited some bookish genes?

Moreover, students solidified bookish knowledge through analyzing literatures and solving difficult problems.

Never be so bookish and naive as to treat complex class struggle as a simple matter.

Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead -- abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation.

Gillard is portrayed by some political commentators as a warmer, more voter-friendly politician than the bookish Rudd.

a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket; a quiet studious child.

More than just black and white, Sin City created a comic bookish visual style all its own.

Unlike Obama, Bush never had a reputation for being bookish.

bespectacled He was bookish, bespectacled, nonathletic, and not her type at all.

But those who have worked for him say that beneath the bookish exterior he is extremely tough.

EVANGELOS VENIZELOS is a big man, built more like a rugby forward than a bookish finance minister.

Bookish parents read more to their children, use a larger vocabulary when they talk to them and prod them to do their homework.

We are a bookish family. In addition to being regular library goers, the Mister happens to own a bookstore. Books are in our blood.

Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view.

Book clubs and bookish events are now common.

In this modern time, even his family and friends might laugh at his bookish and clinging.

Arie that the fragile, bookish Andy will cry when the foot a result, Andy's silence so that he lost a four-pack of cigarettes.

Your English is very bookish .

One of my friends- Robin is a bookish boy, He is my net-friend and is a senior.

Bookish, brave to face challenge, can treat the job in right way.

My second. Brynden is my eldest, and my heir. Next comes Hoster. A bookish boy, I fear.

People attach many words to Hong Kong, but 'bookish' isn't one of them.

He thought Charles might not be bookish enough to please Lady Russell,

I want to decorate my study with them so that I look a little bit bookish whenever my friend visits me.

They think Charles might NOT be learned and bookish enough to please Lady Russell

He looks weird - rather bookish, to be exact

A bookish way of thinking