donnish

How To Use donnish In A Sentence

• He has a somewhat donnish air about him.
• Some might find that a bit too donnish, but his glossaries of rare or lost words are a delight. Times, Sunday Times
• Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God “a category mistake”. Atheism
• His self-described life of writing, reading and lecturing resembles that of a donnish Edwardian vicar; a less modern, less stressful existence can scarcely be imagined.
• The exclusive force is represented by caste and class, by gentility and donnishness, by sectarianism and nationalism, and even by patriotism ” and the inclusive force is represented by Walt Whitmanism and Christianity.” Father Payne
• It is written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit, but it is very far from being a book for specialists. Times, Sunday Times
• Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
• He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
• Unawareness of this is common among our donnish types, however — even ones so appealing asSomin. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most
• It was only to those who had but few personal dealings with him that he seemed stiff and "donnish"; to his more intimate acquaintances, who really understood him, each little eccentricity of manner or of habits was a delightful addition to his charming and interesting personality. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)