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
Characteristically, Dickens set out to transform an unliterary genre, the ghost story – fodder of magazine fiction – into a moral satire, combining ghoulishness with comedy.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2017
This might lead a reader to assume that Salter had never been something as unliterary as a fighter pilot.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2015
This, with his derivation from one of the unliterary Boston suburbs, and his unambitious residence in a place like Hatboro', gave her a sense of provinciality in him.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by William Dean Howells
