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adjectivetextbookish (comparative more textbookish, superlative most textbookish)
comparative more textbookish · superlative most textbookish
- Characteristic of a textbook
Another shortcoming of After You're Out is a lack of the emotion-invoking personality that was so evident in Out Of The Closets […] most of the essays seem cold and clinical. In this respect, After You're Out seems textbookish.
1976 February 7, Mark N. Silber, “After You're Out Is the Post-Stonewall Guide to Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 16
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APA
textbookish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/textbookish
MLA
“textbookish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/textbookish. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “textbookish,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/textbookish.
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