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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Asked what his family had against Sir Keir, Errol Musk said: "What's happened in England is just totally un-English."
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024
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
Petit is less interested in narrative than in new and un-English ways of looking and seeing.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2012
There was an inexpressible wistfulness about her soft, dark eyes; the light and charming gaiety of her manner, so un-English and so attractive to him, had given place to quite another mood.
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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