Significados de donnish en inglés

Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc.

He was stiff and donnish, and had scarcely condescended to speak to any one.

In 1956 he was lured out of his donnish bachelor state by Joy Davidman, an American poet.

He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all.

Funnier than anything else he's written, if sometimes in a rather donnish way, it eventually becomes unexpectedly moving.

Describes his wife, Susan Douglas, a media executive, and clearly a formidable asset to his donnish ambitions... View Article

He has become now almost the leading Character in a little donnish world of much too intensely appreciated Characters.

Describes his donnish personal style.

I thought that he was affecting the poet, and in me he found a donnish affectation of the British sportsman.

She knew he was being playful in his donnish way and she was surprised that he could take the whole affair so lightly.

One does get donnish and superior, no doubt, and it is useful to find it out, though it isn't pleasant at the time.

Despite this over-evident contrast between them, Dixon realized that their progress, deliberate and to all appearances thoughtful, must seem rather donnish to passing students.

Donnish and measured, Dr Chalk usually speaks as if the Tokyo stock exchange might tumble on a careless word from a Lib Dem.

"Diego Hererra entered the Vesper Club at approximately nine thirty-five last night," Lloyd-Philips said in his slightly bored donnish voice.

Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc.

He was stiff and donnish, and had scarcely condescended to speak to any one.