un-English

American  

[uhn-ing-glish] / ʌnˈɪŋ glɪʃ /

adjective

1. not English; not characteristic of the English.

2. not conforming to standard, accepted, or native English language usage.

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Example Sentences

But Australia were reacting to England's approach as well as the Edgbaston pitch, which was flat and un-English.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

Those of us laboring in academia are not surprised that such un-English phrases show up in a book, even one printed by the prominent publisher W. W. Norton & Company.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022

This sort of weapon, she says, is “unsportsmanlike, it is un-English, and it is in very poor taste.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2017

Whatever cadences he was imagining as he wrote it, the long sentence comprising the first stanza is curiously un-English.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2013

This was what he was giving Stanief, he realized with something like dismay,—that passion of fierce un-English intensity which considered nothing and made him its plaything.

From The Game and the Candle by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)