wonkish

Adjective

1. Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.
   • According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to "the issues." - 1997, Edwin Diamond, Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House, →ISBN, page 125:
   • Hillary may have been too wonkish, and Palin not wonkish enough, but they have normalized white females as political candidates for the nation. - 2009, Zillah Eisenstein, The Audacity of Races and Genders, Zed Books,...
   • Being a renegade Islamo-punk had run its course, but now I answered brothers' questions in a wonkish intellectual way, ducking and weaving around the truth claims. - 2009, Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of...