Schoolmasterish

Institutions are no place for frolicking, and I mean that not in a stern schoolmasterish way, but rather as a fairly pedestrian observation about how institutions work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Peter Fraser-MacKenzie was not at all intimidated by the schoolmasterish official portrait of President, Robert Mugabe, that hanged in the small village post office. ❋ Unknown (1999)

They still find it difficult to relate to the low-key, at times schoolmasterish, rhetoric of the African National Congress (ANC) leader. ❋ Unknown (1993)

But of course he wasn't: he was a slender, schoolmasterish young man, old beyond his years and serious almost to the point of eccentricity, judging by his conversation so far. ❋ Price, Anthony (1971)

'You ought not to go out in this weather without wearing galoshes, gentlemen,' Philip Philipovich interrupted in a schoolmasterish voice. ❋ Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 (1968)

“Come down, my boy,” he said in the slightly schoolmasterish tone he always used when he wanted something done quickly. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1952)

The words were schoolmasterish and would have been dead wrong coming from anyone except Chase. ❋ Virgil Finlay (1951)

He sounded as schoolmasterish as ever, but there was a sickly smile on his face, and the gray-green look was gone. ❋ Virgil Finlay (1951)

"No, but I must keep up a little dignity," said Morten, assuming a funny, schoolmasterish expression. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

To think that the little dried up schoolmasterish man was Professor Lee ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

Yet he shows nothing of the schoolmasterish contempt for the "new" poetry so characteristic of Mr. Watson. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)

Often his speechifying feels too cerebral and schoolmasterish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rumbling ceased abruptly and a clipped schoolmasterish voice remarked acidly: “Very good of you to bother about my immortal soul, Chief Inspector. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1952)