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Word: deaconish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...eyes light up behind his pince-nez when he shakes a stranger's hand. But his shyness is so painful that he can never relax. Only a few men like Franklin Roosevelt have known the human warmth that lies behind Morgenthau's deaconish mien. Most others have decided, after a time, that he is suspicious, autocratic, a real cold fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: $51,000,000,000-a-Year Man | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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