“DONNISH” in italiano

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pedantesco
pedantic donnish

sinonimi

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scholarly studious academic bookish intellectual learned highbrow egghead lettered

Esempi

In donnish inquisitions he would challenge every utterance to expose lazy thinking.

True individualism among academics, to say nothing of donnish eccentricity, is but a memory.

His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.

The observations above suggest that, whilst he may have been correct in writing about a decline in donnish dominion in the universities, he was over-hasty in proclaiming an end to that dominion.

Indeed, his donnish uniform - blue cords, woolly jumper - would point to a different set of opinions but, as he says, this war is unusual.