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  • noun The state or condition of being schoolish.

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schoolish +‎ -ness

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  • I think there's definitely an old-schoolishness about him that Obama doesn't have-maybe a bridge to the three-martini lunch, something from back in the good old days which reporters now know nothing about.

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