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- adjective Resembling a
schoolmarm .
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Examples
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But to say that referring to Coakley as schoolmarmish is misogynist is pretty absurd.
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The fact that she can muster that kind of schoolmarmish disapproval, even on the night when Bacchus is coming, is hilarious, and it's one of the reasons I like this show.
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Her ads have been amatuerish and ugly, and her voice is annoying and schoolmarmish.
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After six years in France I'm a mite fed up of schoolmarmish lectures on how to carry my cheese home and what to do with it when I get there.
Visiting Charm-Guaranteed French Villages Lennox Morrison 2011
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I had a rather schoolmarmish attitude to Benjamin [Taylor, their editor].
Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved' Rachel Cooke 2010
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He never lectures or hectors, and he never reduces the drama to a vaudevillian conflict between white-hatted environmentalists and mustache-twirling industrialists - the kind of bumper-sticker poses that can make environmental fiction sound so schoolmarmish.
T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011
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He never lectures or hectors, and he never reduces the drama to a vaudevillian conflict between white-hatted environmentalists and mustache-twirling industrialists - the kind of bumper-sticker poses that can make environmental fiction sound so schoolmarmish.
T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011
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The old entrance, in the slightly schoolmarmish 1936 building, still functions, which is becoming a rarity in oft-enlarged public buildings.
Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to open new wing Saturday 2010
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The old entrance, in the slightly schoolmarmish 1936 building, still functions, which is becoming a rarity in oft-enlarged public buildings.
Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture 2010
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The old entrance, in the slightly schoolmarmish 1936 building, still functions, which is becoming a rarity in oft-enlarged public buildings.
Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture 2010
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