un-English

[uhn-ing-glish]

adjective

1. not English; not characteristic of the English.

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

Example Sentences

Asked what his family had against Sir Keir, Errol Musk said: "What's happened in England is just totally un-English."

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Not the players, but the pitches – fast, bouncy and un-English surfaces.

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

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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.

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Going back four decades, there might be something in the example set by Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, and a bold, popular, singularly un-English approach memorably summed up by one of its activists: “For a while we managed to create, in our noisy, messy, unconventional way, an emotional alternative to nationalism and patriotism, a celebration of a different kind of pride and solidarity.”

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