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Definition of Textbookish
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Textbookish
Literary usage of Textbookish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"I suppose also that this footnoted volume was too textbookish in format and
general appearance. Fortunately I had not fallen between two stools, ..."
2. Content Area Reading: A Heuristic Approach by Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Casale Manzo (1990)
"Is the material appealing, or does it look too "textbookish"? 8. Is the writing
brief, concise, and to the point? A second subjective readability checklist ..."
3. Researching Violently Divided Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues by Marie Smyth, Gillian Robinson, INCORE. (2001)
"1 placed my confidence in the capacity of textbookish triangulation to yield
something close to the truth of the matters that I was investigating. ..."
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