But to say that referring to Coakley as schoolmarmish is misogynist is pretty absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Coakley] Reference
Nearly every sentence in this schoolmarmish screed is funny. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
McCain is the scowling, schoolmarmish master of reproving foreign policy!. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
Altogether it has a schoolmarmish tone, lurching occasionally toward inquisition. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
Funk up the cameo with something more current, though, or risk looking too schoolmarmish. From Wordnik.com. [PEACEBANG'S FALL FASHION TIPS] Reference
Women's Wear Daily will analyze her wardrobe, too schoolmarmish, too daring, too nuanced?. From Wordnik.com. [Katie And The Boys] Reference
I see now that you did it deliberately--I shouldn't have corrected it for grammar, schoolmarmish of me. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 177] Reference
It constantly reminds me of the nagging hectoring schoolmarmish, school board apparatchik she used to be. From Wordnik.com. [NDP And Liberals Virtually Indistinguishable In B.C. Election « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
She frowned again; the blue-framed glasses slipped down her nose and she looked almost comically schoolmarmish. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn Maze]
Implied in that is a snarky-schoolmarmish, “I think it says a lot about you that you think they were funny.”. From Wordnik.com. [Off to Penguicon « Whatever] Reference
This qualifier, though, doesn't take away from the condescending, schoolmarmish tones of their respective commentaries. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: Who Called Ms. Manners?] Reference
In a schoolmarmish bristle, she said, “A time will come when it will be commonplace for women to wear trousers and shirts.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
Maxine, and the Inspektor, however, are much more schoolmarmish, wanting to dominate through often tangential enforcement of rules. From Wordnik.com. ["Each candidate chooses the rule at the moment that is in their self-interest."] Reference
Not with schoolmarmish cautions, fascistic reprimands or anxious bean-counting, but expansively, with the brio of Lindbergh and Earhart. From Wordnik.com. [Air Peter] Reference
#6 A hate mail read in the style of a Miss Manners schoolmarmish tone. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits] Reference
Dowdy, schoolmarmish, extension-lectureish, it might be and doubtless was. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Ages] Reference
She was putting on a brave face and puckering up with a schoolmarmish pursed smile. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Her ads have been amatuerish and ugly, and her voice is annoying and schoolmarmish. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
(That explains my recent preference for the schoolmarmish exclamation "What the heck?"). From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Newspapers fell into the gummy clutches of the schoolmarmish censorship that we call political correctness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
She has this stern, schoolmarmish, Midwestern voice, and what I can only imagine is a terrifyingly crazy stare. From Wordnik.com. [First Draft] Reference
And parenthetically, the schoolmarmish professor who cries "Shame on you!" to these thugs is simply embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Monitor] Reference
I was delighted when Rachel Maddow took over the 9 p.m. slot on MSNBC, but her show has become too academic and schoolmarmish. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
But she’s taken this stern schoolmarmish attitude toward her Sackers—she’s got all three of them jumping. From Wordnik.com. [The Three-Minute Universe] Reference
Here I want to help you disarm the internal critic that claims you’re supposed to be schoolmarmish in the bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Great Sex for Moms] Reference
The old Eurovision was a schoolmarmish, po-faced, political attempt to unite disparate nations who’d spent centuries invading each other. From Wordnik.com. [The New Europe « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
She's just a little schoolmarmish. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Defends Biden After Moderator Smacks Him On Race] Reference
She is schoolmarmish and lacks charisma. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Coakley] Reference
She wagged a schoolmarmish finger at them. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
"Nothing schoolmarmish about her," Driscoll said. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
@Danton: Thanks, I was about to jump on that in my schoolmarmish way. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thursday Night Open Thread] Reference
The semi-captivating weirdness of Tipper's journey from schoolmarmish proponent of warning labels on music (and No. 1 enemy of. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
11: 03 pm thomas: One reason Soile doesn't do it for me is that I find her rather dull and schoolmarmish. From Wordnik.com. [parterre box] Reference
Something almost self-consciously schoolmarmish?. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
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