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well-read

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1. well-read - Adjective

2. well-read - Phrase

3. well-read - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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well read

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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. Gene Simmons

Well-read people are less likely to be evil. Daniel Handler

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. Garrison Keillor

The world is full of intelligent, well-meaning people who, for one reason or another, did not attend university but are nonetheless well-read and educated. Robert B. Laughlin

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed. Jane Wagner

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil. J. C. Ryle

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