Above all, they objected to the bookish education which she was giving to her son, the young King.
Bookish families are usually the happiest, at least if we rightly estimate the term.
He had, in truth, somewhat of a bookish look, and his rounded shoulders already told of much poring over a student's tasks.
He was probably the least bookish poet who had ever had a classical education.
In part, this was a conventional rhetorical strategy designed to separate the bookish and divine from the illiterate and worldly.
A bookish idea helped to solidify a social reality.
The subversive side of the lab had as its target to undermine the prevalent bookish character of foreign language learning and teaching.
