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What does schoolmasterly mean?

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Adjective
  1. Befitting a schoolmaster.
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As is his wont when games are in their infancy, he contented himself with a schoolmasterly lecture.
So let me say that we must indeed talk about the state of democracy in Russia, but we cannot talk down to that country in a lofty and schoolmasterly way.
To its followers, heritage offered a free ticket into a past liberated from the schoolmasterly disciplines of chronology, narrative, and moral judgment.
Political condemnation and praise in the name of art seem to be two sides of one coin representing a schoolmasterly avoidance of the issue.
This means proceeding with great sensitivity and not taking a schoolmasterly line or apportioning blame to one side alone.
In July one poll of left-wing sympathisers had the two front-runners neck-and neck: François Hollande, a schoolmasterly former party boss, and Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille and his successor as party leader.

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