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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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
He was a legendary broadcasting figure and a member of the British broadcasting landscape for two generations and in many ways his success was very un-English.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2013
After studying the Chandos portrait, Freud even declared that Shakespeare's face was "completely un-English", and proposed that he was actually French, his name a corruption of "Jacques Pierre".
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2010
But in the failings of the Duke of York, there was nothing that was un-English, nothing that was un-princely.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
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