Adjective

(en adjective)

of or relating to teachers

suggestive of a teacher

* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=November 18, author=Albert Williams, title=Don't Call Me Cleo, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1997, date=April 4, author=Jack Helbig, title=The Fever, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=While others take pains to reproduce Shawn's high, nervous stutter or his intense, anxious way of speaking, Shapiro--who looks nothing like Shawn--delivers this 90-minute piece in an easygoing, teacherly style that's the very antithesis of a New Yorker's hectic ways. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=May 14, author=Monica Kendrick, title=Spot Check, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Many of the lyrics were borrowed more or less intact from a 1986 grade-school textbook on Illinois history, and Greenfield delivers them in an earnest, teacherly tone enlivened by the occasional quippy aside or funny forced rhyme ("moratorium" / "Santorum"). }}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Resembling a teacher or some aspect of one, such as didactic behaviour.