Example Sentences

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"I'll bet it is a corking story," she added unacademically.

From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca

It would not do to act illiberally towards a man who combined a knowledge of seafaring with Italian literature, and who had evidently arrived, however unacademically, at certain original judgments and criteria of life.

From Aliens by McFee, William