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| ADJECTIVE: | Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic, bookish, donnish, formalistic, inkhorn, literary, pedantical, scholastic. See ATTITUDE, FLEXIBLE, TEACH.
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