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What does schoolish mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word schoolish? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to school; scholastic.
  2. Characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical, etc.
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You don't have to raise your hand or be too schoolish, but make sure the gabbers get plenty of air time.
In a willingly schoolish way, he frames them in elementary, narrow perspectives.
Failure to spend five minutes checking work for spelling and grammar errors could, it says with a schoolish authority, jeopardises our chances of promotion.
Holy Angels is a public school, but the thinking isn't public schoolish.
Joanna's answer, touchingly schoolish, is to quote a Nabokov phrase about caressing one's characters.
So what's an appropriate term that's neither vague, high schoolish or pretentious for the other person in a serious relationship?

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