donnish dans le dictionnaire Oxford-Hachette

Traductions de donnish dans le dictionnaire anglais»français

donnish [GB ˈdɒnɪʃ, Am ˈdɑnɪʃ] ADJ

donnish person:

donnish

intellectuel/-elle

Exemples monolingues (non-vérifiés par l'équipe de rédaction)

anglais

With his icy stare and donnish imperiousness, he was a master of the brilliant and devastating putdown.

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But donnish dominion, like patriotism, may not be enough.

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Were it a shade more donnish, this would be a book to treasure.

www.standard.co.uk

Each raises a top hat in dandy style to a donnish man in a gown emerging from the senior common room.

www.telegraph.co.uk

He appeared regularly on radio and television, where his donnish manner, precise diction, remarkable political recall and somewhat squashed facial features made him a memorable performer.

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Those brown eyes, so keenly penetrating on stage and screen, signal kindness behind donnish spectacles.

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A figure of donnish authority, dry wit and voluminous erudition, forever having to point out to his excitable panellist that he's got his facts all wrong.

www.telegraph.co.uk

A donnish gown is his only nod to the old order.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It was a rapid ascent, revealing a canny political operator behind the donnish exterior.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Freeman brims with relish in this donnish parsing of a word made up 1,500 years ago.

www.ft.com