un-English
Americanadjective
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not English; not characteristic of the English.
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not conforming to standard, accepted, or native English language usage.
Example Sentences
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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
The first extract was the opening of Amis's as yet unpublished Money, bursting on the reader with a linguistic verve and lexical daring that seemed almost un-English.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2011
He had been much in France, I think; he spoke often of Paris, with the air and knowledge of a born Parisian; his singing of French songs was as un-English as it could be.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
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