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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

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

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

But though he was much pleased by his reception, he thought Lord Salisbury “dangerous,” as being unliterary, and only scientific and religious in his tastes.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George