unliterary
- a word derived from literary.
Example Sentences
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The bond between Alice and the spiky, decidedly unliterary Felix might flummox.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021
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
The most unliterary pastor cannot but be a meditative man.
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport
