nonacademic
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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True, Wojnarowicz’s formal means — stenciling, spray painting, collaging — are anti-academic.
From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2018
And it’s certainly true that he saw himself as an experimenter, an anti-academic art dissident.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2018
They exalted the anti-academic values of disorder, spontaneity, and enthusiasm.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 2, 2015
By pulling higher achieving students out and replacing them with more disruptive students, an anti-academic, disruptive climate is created.
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2011
As a philologist merely, to speak of nothing else, his equipment was ten times that of Borrow, whose temperament may be called anti-academic, and who really knew nothing thoroughly.
From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
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