literary
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature.
unliterary
-
a word derived from
literary.
Example Sentences
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It can be easy to dismiss these forms as the worthwhile but fundamentally unliterary assemblage of facts into paragraphs.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
“I’m laughing all the time, making jokes, and, if you’ll excuse the unliterary phrase, messing around,” he told me.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 25, 2019
Edith Wharton, brought up in a wealthy, unliterary "gilded age" family in the 1860s and 70s, was forbidden by her mother to read any novels until after she was married.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2012
Charles Isherwood Given our increasingly unliterary culture, it is hardly surprising that most Broadway musicals these days seem to be transcriptions of popular movies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2011
Because Philadelphians did not begin to write the minute they landed on the banks of the Delaware, some wise people argue that Friends were then, as now, unliterary.
From Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
