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Definition of "schoolmarmish" []

  • Resembling a schoolmarm. (adjective)

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Use "schoolmarmish" in a sentence
  • "But to say that referring to Coakley as schoolmarmish is misogynist is pretty absurd."
  • "The fact that she can muster that kind of schoolmarmish disapproval, even on the night when Bacchus is coming, is hilarious, and it's one of the reasons I like this show."
  • "He never lectures or hectors, and he never reduces the drama to a vaudevillian conflict between white-hatted environmentalists and mustache-twirling industrialists - the kind of bumper-sticker poses that can make environmental fiction sound so schoolmarmish."
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