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What does donnish mean?

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Adjective
  1. Characteristic of a (university) don
  2. (of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.
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They should really check out the donnish chap, who's in tailored jeans and a linen jacket.
True individualism among academics, to say nothing of donnish eccentricity, is but a memory.
Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
If he has forced ministers to mull over some harsh truths, we should forgive him the odd donnish flourish.
Sheffield said he liked people to be natural, and hated that donnish manner.
He then proceeded to discuss, with donnish mellifluousness, the fascination that the law held for Trollope and his peers.

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